At this local mall, visitors are ushered through a 1940s jail exhibit.

Every weekend, people gather here for a brief chance to see their loved ones on the other side of the United States–Mexico border.

A popular oddity on display in a stately building, offering a symbolic commentary.

A 19th-century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.

This quiet, unassuming spot in Budapest was the birthplace of the bloody 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

A much-loved sculpture depicting the hero of a 1956 anti-Soviet uprising.

A bronze woman in a stylized dress honors a courageous politician.

A relic of World War I that now exist as a piece of public art.

A diminutive statue that was inspired by the sculptor's own daughter.

New York's oldest concrete structure is being preserved thanks to the gentrification of Whole Foods.

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

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

The rare American Civil War-era weapon was never fired in anger.

A working monastery hidden away in Brooklyn once abutted the location of a former inebriate's home.

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

Brooklyn's Barkaloo Cemetery is the resting place of a scant two bodies.

This seemingly unremarkable boulder is said to bear the hoofprint of the devil himself.

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

The highest rapid transit station in the world.

The most unloved grain elevator in Brooklyn was a “Magnificent Mistake.”

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

This micro-industry of Latino cuisine along Red Hook's Ball Fields represents a victory in a food fight with the city.

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

Four cars from the old system were once on display, but were removed in 2014.