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

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

Featuring the the longest lift span of any vertical-lift bridge in the world.

A Rocky Mountain city provides a happy ending for a pinto pony and his Brobdingnagian red chair.

An unusual geological feature towers over the remains of a dark episode in United States history.

There is beauty and history in the ruins of this former company town.

On the Hudson resides one of the largest clocks in the world.

A simple plaque remembers an act of WWI terrorism that obliterated an island and forever scarred the Statue of Liberty.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

This evocative New Jersey statue memoralizes the Polish victims of a Soviet massacre.

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.

A bronze plaque at an intersection in Hoboken marks the place where the game of baseball first took shape.

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

The one-time epicenter of American songwriting is now a little remembered Manhattan commercial block.

Church in Manhattan holds the bloody sock of Padre Pio, among with many other unusual relics.

Manhattan and the Bronx have been playing tug-of-war over this former island neighborhood for more than a century.

These mysterious ruins are hidden amid this sleepy coastal city.

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

Nope, not Washington Irving's house.

The place where Dvořák composed some of his most famous works.

Behind a grungy bodega facade, a Poblano family serves rich, home-cooked meals.

A notorious punk house turned co-op.

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.