A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and converted into a cocktail bar. Now it’s home to the local visitor bureau.

A planned settlement in Pennsylvania once housed the aristocratic refugees of the French Revolution.

This lush forest valley was once mined for lumber to the extent that it was once nicknamed "The Pennsylvania Desert."

This collection honors the iconic, and proudly American lighter that just won't quit.

As state highpoints go, this spot is one of the lowest, but for years it was also the hardest to climb.

This decrepit abandoned building is made all the more eerie by its dark history.

A stunning garden filled with fantastical environmental folk art and sculptures.

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

A playground inspired by differential calculus dangles from the ceiling of the Liberty Science Center.

A simple plaque remembers an act of WWI terrorism that obliterated an island and forever scarred the Statue of Liberty.

This evocative New Jersey statue memoralizes the Polish victims of a Soviet massacre.

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

Featuring the the longest lift span of any vertical-lift bridge in the world.

Along the Palisades skyline are the ruins of a large mansion built in 1911 and demolished in the 1930s.

Once the world's largest reinforced concrete structure, this abandoned bridge now beckons urban explorers.

Historic town settled in the 19th century because of its convenient location along a popular coal transport route.

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

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

World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.

The highest point in Florida is still the lowest high point in the country.

The 320-year-old tree that greeted General Lafayette and rerouted an interstate highway.

In this relatively flat state the highest point is an honored place.