A vast collection of everyday items amassed by one man.

A wooden theatre that remains the heart of a charming Victorian-era New Jersey enclave.

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.

A historic recreation of the golden age of the Erie Canal, abandoned for some time, slowly being restored.

The shared home of a utopian commune that practiced "free love" a century before the hippies.

Celebrating the greatest pugilists the world has ever known.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

A mummy and sarcophagus are part of the many wonders in this library's collection.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

This memorial in the Adirondack wilderness honors the accidental death of a Scottish entrepreneur.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A stranded woman lived alone on this remote island for 18 years, inspiring the great children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."

This New York estate was designed to resemble a medieval Scottish castle.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

The final resting place of Harriet Tubman and other famous historical figures.

A six-story treehouse offers spectacular views of New York's Finger Lakes region.

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.