This statue honors the author's groundbreaking family story.

This former asylum for Black Americans is haunted by its history of violence and racism.

An unusual assortment of steerable wooden sleds is on display in a library in New Jersey where they were first invented.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.

Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

Step into Monet's world at this fine-dining restaurant in the middle of a New Jersey sculpture park.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

This Delaware River bridge is emblazoned with a catty slogan from a more prosperous time.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

The first partially complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered here, forever changing the world's view of the ruling reptiles.

This stone tower marks a lookout point over the historic Washington Crossing, and maybe some buried treasure.

A pride of the state, this working museum crafts pottery mosaics in the style of Pennsylvania's earliest European settlers.

World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.

The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.

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

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

This strange, big-tailed beast became a Pennsylvania town's unofficial mascot.