Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

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

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

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.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

Pulled from the rubble of one of the worst modern tragedies, a steel crossbeam became a symbol of hope for New Yorkers.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

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

A wooden theatre that remains the heart of a charming Victorian-era New Jersey enclave.

A small structure built from used railroad ties honors the short term of America's 20th president.

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

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

One of New Jersey's oldest churches is a historical treasure trove.

The first dish to bounce radio signals off the Moon, it was the forerunner to the U.S. Space Program.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

This strange, big-tailed beast became a Pennsylvania town's unofficial mascot.

A pride of the state, this working museum crafts pottery mosaics in the style of Pennsylvania's earliest European settlers.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.