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

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.

Rusting away on the edge of New Jersey are the remains of a Cold War missile launch site.

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

Every year model trains zip through a miniature New York City that's now 150 landmarks strong.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

The highest point on the island known for buildings that touch the sky.

For almost a century, this East Village newsstand has served egg creams to beats, hippies, punks, and everything in between.

During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

After traveling the world, one of the last remaining fully-rigged three masted iron-hulled cargo ship in the world found its home in New York.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

Magnificent New Deal Murals evoke a time when New York City harbor was one of the world's greatest and busiest ports.

This 19th-century clock has been restored to help withstand the harsh environment of its seaside home.

The oldest working cattle ranch in the U.S.

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

This roadside dinosaur park offered up lumpy neon thunder lizards in the name of kitsch and education.

Beneath its placid surface, one of New York City's primary sources of drinking water hides a haunted past.

An abandoned dollhouse factory.

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

Famed activist Hellen Keller was involved in the operation and administration of this vacation home for blind women starting in the early 20th century.

An abandoned military bunker that has been transformed into an artist's paradise.

The oldest continuously operating farm in New York State.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.