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Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

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.

Red Hook's massive public pool, built by Robert Moses.

The site where Joe Gallo kept his guns, pet lion, and launched an all out mob war in 1960s Brooklyn.

The Underground Railroad passed right through this historic Brooklyn Heights church.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

An interim housing alternative to FEMA trailers that is designed for densely populated areas during recovery and rebuilding following a natural disaster.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

The last remnants of Fort Pitt also hold the distinction of being the oldest structure west of the Allegheny Mountains.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

A 20-foot-tall quarter commemorates George Washington’s ties to Bedford County.

Built in the 1970s, this curious modular home found new life as a sundae-shaped ice cream stand.

This Art Deco service station has been providing tune-ups and turning heads for close to a century.

Overshadowed by quilts, the artistry of these patterned textiles went underappreciated for too long.

This titanic java kettle is one of the many kitschy landmarks located along America's OTHER famous highway.

In the parking lot of a fast food restaurant, a statue memorializing a prolific bull elephant.

This giant, rotating globe was built to celebrate the expansion of a company that makes steam cleaners and pressure washers.

A piece of crumbling highway infrastructure was repurposed as a high-tech facility for testing racecars.

Pennsylvania's own Roswell-style UFO mystery.

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.