The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

The birthplace of a titan of American cinema.

Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.

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.

As telephones become more essential and less stylish one historic Brooklyn building remembers the days when they were a grand celebration of communication.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.

An illegally built ramshackle mansion tucked in the middle of Brooklyn is now being turned into condominiums.

Haven for steampunks.

Now the site of a high school, this was almost the location of the largest cathedral in the US.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

This abstract sculpture is rumored to cast a hammer-and-sickle shadow once a year.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

The site of the first couple's first kiss is commemorated by the most adorable presidential monument ever.

This bronze sculpture on a former squash court marks the secret origins of the Atomic Age.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.