For 20 years, local pumpkins have met their fate on the iron fence surrounding this Cobble Hill home.

Risk arrest while partying to fund art.

An enormous pair of straw sandals woven in the traditional way—to keep demons at bay.

There’s a secret bunker inside the Brooklyn Bridge, but the city won’t say where.

Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

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

Heralded as the world's first theater, these ruins are often overlooked as they reside in the shadows of the Acropolis.

What may be Boston's finest Art Deco building, located in the city's Financial District.

This enormous monument is one of the most iconic structures in Tokyo, rudely nicknamed "The Golden Turd."

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

Filled with history, this cemetery is maintained each summer by a few hungry goats.

This 45-story tall abandoned skyscraper is the third tallest building in New Orleans and Lousiana.

New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.

A Ukrainian church canteen doles out hearty fare in an East Village basement.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

Gang fights don't just happen on the streets, they happen under them too.

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.