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

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

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

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

This little-known Revolutionary War fort is supposedly haunted by the ghosts of its past.

These lush botanical gardens employ the most purrfect pest control force.

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

This giant disembodied horse head seems to balance impossibly on its nose.

Erected in 1697 this Philadelphia bridge is the oldest surviving roadway bridge and perhaps the oldest stone bridge in the United States.

Members of Congress have traveled between the buildings on Capitol Hill for a century hidden from tourists, press, and storm clouds.

The residents at this Yellowstone wildlife park will certify your cooler as "bear-proof."

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

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

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

For thousands of years, Native American hunters drove buffalo straight off this cliff in Montana's Yellowstone Country.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

One of the world's largest model railroads is a mind-boggling achievement.