This giant mimetic milk bottle has encouraged Route 66 travelers to choose dairy since 1948.

A tribute to the disposable cups that were once manufactured here, this 68-foot-tall statue would be difficult to throw away.

This exoskeleton was gifted to Rutgers University by Japan for its role in educating some of the first Japanese citizens to study outside the country.

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

During the American Revolution, this mansion hosted failed peace talks between the British and Americans.

The flagship building of an early national restaurant chain is a superb example of terra cotta art.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

A wooden rollercoaster that still delivers a thrill.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

One-time largest man-made structure in the world will be a park in 30 years.

The final resting place of some of Staten Island's earliest settlers and their descendants.

Final resting place of two dozen New York City harbor ships.

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

The final resting place of a famous 19th-century murder victim whose identity is still a mystery.

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

A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.

In a New Jersey cemetery, the final resting place of two brothers who fell victim to a deadly mushroom.

A museum that houses a collection of stenography machines plus dozens of books, photographs, and guides to shorthand languages from around the world.

A formerly abandoned mental institute, now back in business.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

Spies, love letters, and ghost stories have all left their mark on this home-cum-museum.

Some of the earliest burial grounds of New York State are to be found hidden away in this quaint town.

The famed poet was born in 1819 in a farmhouse built by his father.