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

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

Once a dumping spot, now a park with a kayak launch.

Love is in the air along the small street in Brooklyn.

This humble historic facade hides a history of boozing and the gentlemanly sport of rat-fighting.

A memorial to the first person killed by a motor vehicle in the Western Hemisphere.

This mysterious marker puzzles pedestrians and infuriates geographers.

A mysterious, abandoned building rotting on the Brooklyn waterfront.

This recipe is set in stone.

A plaque immortalizes the spot where the early American spy said his famous last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

One kilometer of thick brass rod laid out before your eyes.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

After surviving abandonment, this powerful Latin American mural is alive again.

Devotional offerings and pleas for intercession are left at this Depression-era shrine inside a nature preserve.

This morbid scene depicts the Darwinian drama of death on the African savannah.

Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.

This impressive scene portrays the elusive forest giraffe of Central Africa.

The childhood home of one of America's greatest unsung troubadours still stands in a much changed Brooklyn neighborhood.

Two large-scale sculptures of Adam and Eve greet visitors in the nude at the Time Warner Center in NYC.

Staten Island's original central park is the former home of the city water supply as well as thousands of immigrant graves.

No monkeying around, this fountain was really named after the classic sci-fi film.

A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.

If you were standing here on October 5th, 1950, you'd be dead.

The graveyard holds the remains of Irish immigrants who arrived in Queens after fleeing the Great Famine.