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.

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

This neo-Gothic former auto showroom is one of the few remaining reminders of Brooklyn's "Automobile Row."

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

Waterway populated with abandoned projects, including a submarine.

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

A massive forgotten storehouse from 1913 on the Brooklyn Waterfront has a spectacular view of Brooklyn.

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

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

This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

This neighborhood grocery houses a treasure trove of Eastern European delights.

The remains of Alfred Nobel's first nitroglycerine factory can still be found on the shores of a Swedish bay.

What looks like a birch tree smushed between two pieces of glass often confounds commuters.

A king's bloodstained shirt is among the gruesome collection of artifacts displayed below Stockholm's Royal Palace.

The Swedish flag over this small naval fort signals that the nation is at peace.

Every Tuesday, students let off steam by screaming into the night air.

Stockholm's deepest subway station is also a stunning ecological wonder.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.