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This abandoned asylum in Wales might look haunted, but it's still beautiful.

The only remaining building in New York to see the inauguration of a president is being slowly overtaken by a grocery store.

The unassuming structure was part of a Major League Baseball stadium.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

A vibrant, 100-foot-tall mural dedicated to Evelyn Nesbit, the tragic icon of the Gilded Age.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Now the site of a high school, this was almost the location of the largest cathedral in the US.

This unusual apartment building may be Brooklyn's own version of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

A working metal shop and venue for outrageous art and music shows in a former cannonball factory.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.

This monument to a veteran of the Mexican-American War is one of only two in Manhattan that serve as an actual mausoleum.

Micro-distillery in Brooklyn produces New York’s first homemade rum since Prohibition.

Brooklyn vintners creating world-class wine in a city not known for its vineyards.

Come for the sustainable organic chocolate, stay for the sustainable organic booze.

The engineering feat of the Panama Canal was possible in small part thanks to materials developed in this humble Red Hook foundry.

A community theatre in Brooklyn that brings Country to New York and New York to Country.

Where there’s manufacturing, there’s fire!

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.

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

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

Down a stairway in the East Village, you could once read a plaque describing an alternate history of a fictional version of Manhattan.

Jimi Hendrix's legendary recording studio in Greenwich Village.

Those belting out show tunes in this West Village piano bar might not realize it marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.