This unusual subway stop was originally a real estate office.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

A tribute to the hard-working men and women of Grumman, who crafted F-14 fighter jets.

A historic lighthouse steeped in rumors of ghost and pirate stories.

All that remains of a magnate's dream home is a historic gate and an abandoned public pool.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

Neoclassical bank designed by NY architects Helmle & Huberty.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

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.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

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

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

Headquarters of the world's fourth largest Hasidic sect and the first of many "770s" around the world.

Featuring the the longest lift span of any vertical-lift bridge in the world.

On the Hudson resides one of the largest clocks in the world.

Infamous marsh filled with toxic waste, World War II-era London rubble, and dead mobsters galore.

The start of the group that straightened the teeth of a nation.

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.