Places Added by Kris

Anne Rice, one of the most influential writers in gothic literature, is buried alongside her husband in a New Orleans cemetery.

What was once a vast naval cemetery is now home to nesting birds and pollinating bees.

Now owned by the National Park Service, this location was once home to illegal boxing matches.

The final resting place of a former Dodgers and Mets player can be found in central Brooklyn, in the first diocesan cemetery for Catholics in the borough.

The real "father of baseball" rests in Brooklyn.

The façade of this building looks like a bingo board, but it's really a giant clock by a famed graphic designer.

Tourists who rely on a transit map to find the iconic Beatles location often end up in a far-off neighborhood.

The painter who popularized "bulls" and "bears" as symbols for the stock market didn't get a proper headstone for over a century.

In Little Caribbean, an ice-cream shop serves up regional flavors, including soursop, Irish moss, and "greatnut."

This former water source for the City of Brooklyn is now a thriving natural wetland.

A line number in Amsterdam that will likely never be used again due to its tragic history.

This controversial statue has migrated twice in its life.

One of the remaining markers of an era when Brooklyn and Flatbush were separate cities.

A remnant of the original World Trade Center complex continues to serve as a commuter gateway.

A waterway covered over after the Industrial Revolution has been unearthed and cleaned up, for the enjoyment of fish and humans alike.

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

On the hills of Bay Ridge stands a house straight out of a fairy tale.

This miniature village stays behind in the Breuer Building, even as the museums around it come and go.

The site of a fallen tree that protected Americans from British forces during the American Revolution.

This elaborate tunnel is the first structure composed of cast concrete in the United States.

The inventor of the Coney Island hot dog rests in a grand mausoleum in Brooklyn.

This generously endowed statue once stood guard outside a Roman home.

The highest rapid transit station in the world.

This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.