The largest living museum in the Northeast recreates life from the Early Republic period complete with costumed historians and reenactors.

Built in the 1920s, this co-op in the Bronx feels more like an Italian villa than a typical New York apartment building.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

View roughly 7,000 books amassed over decades by the author and avid bibliophile.

This Peruvian-Chinese institution has perfected the art of rotisserie chicken—alongside plantains and lo mein.

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

At this site, two historic stone bridges spanning the Sing Sing Kill—one right on top of the other.

A piece of telecommunications history.

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

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

Beautiful stained glass depictions of the history of human flight fill this surprising chapel.

This monument pays tribute to the musicians responsible for creating the Sound Of Asbury Park.

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.

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

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.

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

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

A monument commemorating the discoverer of radio astronomy.

This water tower commemorates the invention of the transistor on this site in 1947.

This giant satellite antenna services the transmission needs of government agencies and cable programmers.

A condo complex once housed a boarding school with the 24th U.S. Vice President among its notable alumni.

The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."