Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn Battery Tunnel
The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.
Places I've been
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Brooklyn, New York
The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.
Brooklyn, New York
Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.
Peru, Indiana
The humble Hoosier roots of a famed Broadway composer.
Dobbs Ferry, New York
This once-grand marvel of engineering is now 41 miles of scenic hiking trail.
Hyde Park, New York
"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."
Athens, Georgia
A white oak with property rights.
Brooklyn, New York
A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.
Kapa'a, Hawaii
This former luxury resort in Kaua'i is now an abandoned relic.
Chichen Itza, Mexico
Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.
Baltimore, Maryland
The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.
Brooklyn, New York
You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.
Saugerties, New York
One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.
Venice, Italy
An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.
Prague, Czechia
Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Yo, Adrian!
Hudson, New York
The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.
Sleepy Hollow, New York
Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
Hartsdale, New York
The first pet cemetery in the United States.
Bellerose, New York
The oldest continuously operating farm in New York State.
New York, New York
A grand New York post office that is home to mailman Santas, scraps of postal history, and a pneumatic mail system.
New York, New York
This 220-year-old house is a reminder of New York City's Dutch past.
Brooklyn, New York
Abandoned 19th century homes once occupied by naval officers, soon to be demolished.
Brooklyn, New York
Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.
Fez, Morocco
The other side is actually green.