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.

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.

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

In the 19th century, this canal provided power to mills, machine shops, and other businesses in the area.

The final resting place of many of New Jersey's most famous residents, including U.S. history's most in-vogue antagonist, Aaron Burr.

The mysterious canine hides atop a drain pipe on the back of the building, some say as a sneaky shoutout to Yale.

Nassau Hall has served as army barracks, a museum, and played a key role in the American Revolution.

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

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

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

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

Where European elegance met riverside leisure in early 20th-century Pennsylvania. 

A farm in New Jersey grew a most unusual crop for AT&T's testing purposes.

A historic grist mill and active sluice on the Black River.

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

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

Richly symbolic public artworks that have been reconfigured for the 21st century.

This 25-foot tall clock tower commemorates the start of one of America's foremost shopping districts and the end of the historic Palm Beach Pier.

A Manhattan tombstone honors a popular 19th-century heroine, now long forgotten.

This vacant church in the Financial District was once the heart of New York's first Syrian immigrant community.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

The former home of the reclusive "Weird Wendels" who dominated New York real estate a century before Donald Trump.