One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

Rusting away on the edge of New Jersey are the remains of a Cold War missile launch site.

An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.

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

What looks like a simple quaint estate in rural Pennsylvania was in the 18th century home to a small monastic community.

The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

This Great Depression-era creation was once known as the strangest house in the world.

A scenic fort on the harbor protected Philadelphia from an attack that never came.

Rising out of a clearing in New Jersey's Pine Barrens is an Aztec-inspired monument to the "Lindbergh of Mexico."

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

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

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

The home and studio of a visionary woodworker now stands as a museum and example of his artistic genius.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

The body of St. John Neumann and his collection of hundreds of relics, on display in a Philly church.

Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

Yo, Adrian!

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.

One of the oldest of its kind.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."