The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.

Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

The most confusing clock in New York.

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

This metal eagle one of the final remnants of a newspaper that wanted to keep Brooklyn to Brooklyn.

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

A historic 1890s architectural masterpiece with an iconic clock tower that, once open to the public, now faces an uncertain future.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

In an odd geographic anomaly this city borders two different states on opposite sides of town.

The taxidermy remains of the most popular pony in children's literature.

Designated as an Underground Railroad research site.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

One of the oldest carousels in the United States is still running in the coastal village of Watch Hill.

Tucked away in downtown Westerly is America's first shark history museum.

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.

A wrecked ship dating back to the American Revolution was only recently discovered off the Delaware coast.

A desiccated merman and a walrus penis bone are among the oddities in this eclectic collection of shipwreck treasures.

World War II-era bunkers are hidden under the beaches of this picturesque park, which is still scattered with wartime watchtowers.