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

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

This monument pays tribute to the musicians responsible for creating the Sound Of Asbury Park.

Memorial to the 137 lives lost on a ship fire, the whole hulk of which washed up on the Asbury Park shore.

A wooden theatre that remains the heart of a charming Victorian-era New Jersey enclave.

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

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

A quiet and contemplative oasis in the middle of New York's bustle and riot.

Hidden behind a gate in Greenwich Village is a little farmhouse that once served as the writing studio of a bestselling author.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

Manhattan's Thirteenth Avenue was made on landfill then deliberately destroyed — apart from one small, obscure block.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

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

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

A massive rotating globe sits at the center of Babson Park.

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

A Harvard-area eatery preserves the uncovered tiles of its century-old predecessor.

One of the last remaining movie theatres in the country that features a rear-projection system.

This plaque is dedicated to one-half of the Magliozzi brothers and their hit radio show, 'Car Talk.'

Memorial to a beloved puppeteer as well as all street performers.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

Unusual books about food and drink abound in this 19th-century New York townhouse.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).