North America’s largest collection of horological devices and home to a colossal clock with a dizzying array of features.

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

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

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

It would take 35 firetrucks to fill this enormous glacial pothole.

This extraordinary Depression-era expenditure was modeled after a postcard of a Mediterranean hotel.

A small museum along the Susquehanna River is home to a rich collection of Native American artifacts.

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

A unusual sanctuary for abused and exotic animals in South Jersey.

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

This water tower commemorates the invention of the transistor on this site in 1947.

The largest collection of Frazetta originals in the world.

On the hills of Bay Ridge stands a house straight out of a fairy tale.

A working monastery hidden away in Brooklyn once abutted the location of a former inebriate's home.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

The pioneering photographer's prints are immortalized inside her childhood home.

Take a step into the workshop where Edison and his employees revolutionized the world.

Thomas Edison's home and final resting place also boasts an impressive garage, where some of the earliest electric cars are on display.

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

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.