The first neighborhood to implement the Garden City model in its suburban planning.

One of the oldest surviving bars in the United States, located at the site of the last skirmish of the American Revolution.

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

A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.

This ominously named New Jersey street seems to be attracting over-the-top legends of its own making.

This tiny structure was built by the creator of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York's only fraction of a street.

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

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

This unassuming retro burger joint was billed as “diner of the future” at the 1939 World's Fair.

This old-fashioned candy shop, ice cream parlor, and diner served as the setting for one of TV's most controversial series finales.

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

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

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

This crumbling little graveyard was saved from the undergrowth by concerned veterans.

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

Originally built in 1869, this castle is currently part of Felician University's campus.

Thousands of Matchbox cars spanning generations call this New Jersey barn home.

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

A playground inspired by differential calculus dangles from the ceiling of the Liberty Science Center.

The final resting place of many of New Jersey's most famous residents, including U.S. history's most in-vogue antagonist, Aaron Burr.