The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

One of the last-standing and most prominent structures from a long-lost colonial port community.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

In the power of this waterfall, Alexander Hamilton saw the potential for industry.

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

In the 19th century, this canal provided power to mills, machine shops, and other businesses in the area.

These unassuming lighthouses have seen the first reading of the Pledge of Allegiance, the first wireless transmission, and more than one mystery.

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

Featuring the the longest lift span of any vertical-lift bridge in the world.

This huge work of functional public art replaced a landfill in New Jersey's Meadowlands.

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

This vacant church in the Financial District was once the heart of New York's first Syrian immigrant community.

Currently housing a corporate bank branch this building at the southern tip of Manhattan was once the gateway to luxury vacationing.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

A well-worn marker in a forgotten alleyway is all that remains of what had been one of Manhattan's most beautiful buildings.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

American involvement in World War I officially ended in 1921 in New Jersey, three years late and thousands of miles from the battlefield.

Seven people are buried in the middle of what's now a movie theater parking lot.

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.