A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.

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

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

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.

On the Hudson resides one of the largest clocks in the world.

Nassau Hall has served as army barracks, a museum, and played a key role in the American Revolution.

These 20-foot sculptures will help guide you from the local train station to the local sculpture garden.

Step into Monet's world at this fine-dining restaurant in the middle of a New Jersey sculpture park.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

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

The way these carnivorous dinosaurs are posed is an homage to a classic work of paleoart.

One of New Jersey's oldest surviving buildings still bears the mark of our former British overlords.

This Delaware River bridge is emblazoned with a catty slogan from a more prosperous time.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

A suburban museum tells the story of a historic transportation network and even provides rides in antique trolley cars.

Hidden within an idyllic suburban garden is a memorial dedicated to the victims of a terrifying spree of killings committed on U.S. soil.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

FDR's Art Deco hospital tower was hopelessly inefficient.

The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.