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.

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

Oldest surviving example of a Dutch saltbox frame house in America.

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

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.

Residents of this Brooklyn neighborhood may be unaware their houses sit atop a buried trolley graveyard.

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.

After traveling the world, one of the last remaining fully-rigged three masted iron-hulled cargo ship in the world found its home in New York.

A unique collection of figures perform down the facade of the Gene Frankel Theatre.

Small monoliths of several varieties of stone sit alongside a wooded path in the Bronx.

An abandoned subway tunnel that could have reinvigorated Staten Island still lies somewhere beneath this Brooklyn park.

This unique house, the only one of its kind in Brooklyn, was built as part of a real estate developer's showcase.

A series of fish plaques that are embedded in the malls of Ocean Parkway.

The last remaining 19th-century mile marker along the historic Ocean Parkway.

This preserved wilderness hides the remains of a colonial grain mill used to feed George Washington's troops.

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

Haven for steampunks.

A cargo of beautiful music.

Buffalo's abandoned concrete grain elevators are getting a second life.

The absurd creation is a compulsory destination for selfies in Buffalo.

The seat of Buffalo government is a gorgeous Art Deco palace.

A forsaken wonder in the middle of the East Side neighborhood.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

The little bear in the "funny kind of hat" has made his way from London back to Peru.