Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

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

A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.

A trompe-l'oeil statue honoring the first guide dog in North America.

Eccentric stone cairns built on a public New York City beach.

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

American involvement in World War I officially ended in 1921 in New Jersey, three years late and thousands of miles from the battlefield.

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

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.

An allegedly cursed tree represents a town's reckoning with a racist past.

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.

A historic town sits upon the site of a long-lost 18th-century trading community.

One of the last-standing and most prominent structures from a long-lost colonial port community.

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.

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

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

The pioneering photographer's prints are immortalized inside her childhood home.

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

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

Failed state-supported institution meant to rehabilitate students with intellectual disabilities.

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

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