One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

The Wright Tavern is possibly the most important building in Concord Massachusetts to the American Revolution.

This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.

A journey through a curious collection of oddities and wonder.

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

An actual piece of the Moon, brought down to Earth by Apollo 15.

An easy-to-miss plaque marks the building that first held this 19th-century telephone innovation.

An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.

This stunning Connecticut mansion is actually just a one-room-deep hoax.

Who knew the Devil's domain was a hot spot for tubing?

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

A former Tibetan monk made a name for himself selling some of the best beef momos in New York.

No monkeying around, this fountain was really named after the classic sci-fi film.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

Final resting place of two dozen New York City harbor ships.

The final resting place of some of Staten Island's earliest settlers and their descendants.

Devotional offerings and pleas for intercession are left at this Depression-era shrine inside a nature preserve.

Staten Island's original central park is the former home of the city water supply as well as thousands of immigrant graves.

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

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

One of the last full-orchestra recording studios in New York City and an acoustical marvel.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.