This huge work of functional public art replaced a landfill in New Jersey's Meadowlands.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

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

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

Take a step into the workshop where Edison and his employees revolutionized the world.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

An ideal wedding spot that is almost too ideal.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

The first dish to bounce radio signals off the Moon, it was the forerunner to the U.S. Space Program.

This huge, disused viaduct is now a crumbling concrete underworld of covered in years of graffiti.

This ominously named New Jersey street seems to be attracting over-the-top legends of its own making.

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.

A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.

A farm in New Jersey grew a most unusual crop for AT&T's testing purposes.

The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.

The final resting place of the Hollywood star who came to a tragic end.

An allegedly cursed tree represents a town's reckoning with a racist past.

In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.

A park in a small Pennsylvania town is home to an original sculpture by one of its native sons, legendary artist and activist Keith Haring.

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

A smaller model of the Da Vinci sculpture that took 500 years to come to life.

The famous bell was secreted away and hidden in a church in Allentown during the British occupation of Philadelphia.