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

An incredible mosaic-lined monument said to have held the remains of an ancient Roman empress.

The best preserved Paleochristian basilica in Rome hides a number of oddities and secrets.

This mosaic-lined medieval church was built by the world's first admiral and still holds mass in ancient Greek.

The 20th-century church looks like a rustic version of the Sagrada Familia.

This 6th-century church has the largest and best-preserved collection of Byzantine mosaics outside Constantinople.

Where the embers of the Big Bang were first detected.

Creaky dinosaurs grow in the backroads of Monmouth County, New Jersey.

This huge work of functional public art replaced a landfill in New Jersey's Meadowlands.

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

Rising out of a clearing in New Jersey's Pine Barrens is an Aztec-inspired monument to the "Lindbergh of Mexico."

A surprising museum of 20th-century technology.

Seven golden statues rise into the sky from sculptor Victor Victori's New Jersey front lawn.

World Trade Center memorial likened to a woman's sexual organ.

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

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

The only remaining piece of hull of the most decorated US ship of WWII is this giant name plate.

Edison's cast-in-place concrete houses were a failure, but way ahead of their time.

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

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

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

Whimsical artist house in the New Jersey woods.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

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