A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

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

The final resting place of one of the United States's greatest poets.

Once forgotten, this strip of sand was a rare beachside haven for Black Americans in Atlantic City.

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

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

A granite monument honors a beloved World War II canine mascot.

These 20-foot sculptures will help guide you from the local train station to the local sculpture garden.

Rising out of a clearing in New Jersey's Pine Barrens is an Aztec-inspired monument to the "Lindbergh of Mexico."

A World War II-era submarine is stuck in the mud in New Jersey.

Infamous marsh filled with toxic waste, World War II-era London rubble, and dead mobsters galore.

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

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

How this Pine Barrens hill got its name is uncertain, but on a good day the view from the fire tower is crystal clear.

These unassuming lighthouses have seen the first reading of the Pledge of Allegiance, the first wireless transmission, and more than one mystery.

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

The highest point in New Jersey is marked by a massive, if simply named, obelisk.

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

Rusting away on the edge of New Jersey are the remains of a Cold War missile launch site.

The remains of an old sawmill, gristmill and the surrounding industry dating back to the 18th century.

Where the embers of the Big Bang were first detected.

The rusting remains are visible sticking out of the waters of the Delaware Bay.

Several times a year, during low tide, two pairs of historic train tracks are revealed on this New Jersey beach.

The boulder on which Alexander Hamilton laid his head as he died can still be visited on the New Jersey coast.