The only remaining Jewish congregation in Greenpoint.

One of the few Glatt kosher delis in the United States is a cornerstone of its Hasidic neighborhood.

This 19th century brick building in Brooklyn stands out like the anachronistic landmark that it is.

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.

This family-owned bakery is one of the last places in Brooklyn to sell the Nation of Islam–inspired bean pie.

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

Two community gardens under the elevated subway lines on a very busy commercial strip in Bushwick.

A replica of a 7th-century church hides in plain sight in the middle of the concrete jungle.

The most radioactive spot in New York City can also fix your muffler.

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

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

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

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.

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.

This historic boathouse was constructed using salvaged lumber from burned barns.

The only one-room schoolhouse remaining in Talbot County, Maryland.

George Washington once stopped by this house for dinner.

The Virginia home of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence is being preserved with a unique glass facade.

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

This Georgian-style house built in 1746 is the oldest surviving structure in Bladensburg.