This old-fashioned candy shop, ice cream parlor, and diner served as the setting for one of TV's most controversial series finales.

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.

A historic town sits upon the site of a long-lost 18th-century trading community.

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

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

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

Memorial to the 137 lives lost on a ship fire, the whole hulk of which washed up on the Asbury Park shore.

Along a busy beachfront strip you may hear Frank Sinatra singing from one boardwalk home.

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

This church built atop a gas station promises to "equip you for the next stage in your life’s journey."

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

Several times a year, during low tide, two pairs of historic train tracks are revealed on this New Jersey beach.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

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

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

The boulder on which Alexander Hamilton laid his head as he died can still be visited on the New Jersey coast.

Infamous marsh filled with toxic waste, World War II-era London rubble, and dead mobsters galore.

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

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

The largest clock face in the United States is twice the size of Big Ben and infinitely more ad-sponsored.