The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

This 19th-century clock has been restored to help withstand the harsh environment of its seaside home.

A former seaside jewel built for the everyman is now simply a neglected art deco fortress.

Nearly four centuries after its founding, remnants of one of the oldest planned communities in North America are still visible in southern Brooklyn.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

These century-old townhouses contain some of the first car garages built in the United States.

A Collegiate Gothic quadrangle that surrounds an 18th century secondary school whose financing came from the likes of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, among others.

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

This beautiful Brooklyn monument over a crypt memorializes a grim and largely unknown story from the American Revolution.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

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.

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.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

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

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

The highest rapid transit station in the world.

One of the deadliest American air disasters is nearly forgotten in Brooklyn.

This neo-Gothic former auto showroom is one of the few remaining reminders of Brooklyn's "Automobile Row."

The ballpark in "Pigtown" where the Brooklyn Dodgers made their name was replaced with a huge apartment complex.

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.