While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

As telephones become more essential and less stylish one historic Brooklyn building remembers the days when they were a grand celebration of communication.

Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.

A prized globe signed by Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh sits in the Brooklyn office of the American Geographical Society.

Final resting place for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire’s unidentified victims.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

A mysterious, abandoned building rotting on the Brooklyn waterfront.

This seemingly unremarkable boulder is said to bear the hoofprint of the devil himself.

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

A heartbreaking monument showing the last morning in the life of Jane Griffith.

An abandoned subway tunnel that could have reinvigorated Staten Island still lies somewhere beneath this Brooklyn park.

One of the U.S. Forest Service's only mansions is outfitted with a dinner table for floating food.

Color-coded signs direct drivers on a network of routes designed to avoid Pittsburgh traffic.

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

Once the most painted on object in the world, this short campus fence is well on its way to being so again.

A take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

A local prank turned town icon.

This huge, disused viaduct is now a crumbling concrete underworld of covered in years of graffiti.

Buildings that dynamite couldn't bring down were abandoned because of bathroom issues.