Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

A heartbreaking monument showing the last morning in the life of Jane Griffith.

Bent but not broken, this massive tree has stood in the garden for over a century.

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

This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

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

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

A Collegiate Gothic quadrangle that surrounds an 18th century secondary school whose financing came from the likes of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, among others.

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

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

The ballpark in "Pigtown" where the Brooklyn Dodgers made their name was replaced with a huge apartment complex.

This metal eagle one of the final remnants of a newspaper that wanted to keep Brooklyn to Brooklyn.

This striking arch, one of the first architectural elements constructed in Prospect Park, was recently restored to its original glory.

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

The Binghamton area is home to six of the last remaining hand-carved vintage carousels.

A gazebo that inspired the fifth episode of the "Twilight Zone" still stands in the creator's hometown

A memorial to the 1913 tragedy that helped protect the workers of the future.

An allegedly haunted testament to a local businessman's desire for status, posterity, and charity.

A eight-foot-tall statue resides in the heart of Pennsylvania anthracite coal country.

The only geyser in the state of Pennsylvania is caused by pressure from an abandoned coal mine outside of the ghost town Centralia.

An underground blaze turned this village into a ghost town.