Dine on dumplings at the oldest dim sum restaurant in New York.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

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

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

A bronze plaque at an intersection in Hoboken marks the place where the game of baseball first took shape.

The boulder on which Alexander Hamilton laid his head after a deadly duel can still be visited on the New Jersey coast.

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

On the Hudson resides one of the largest clocks in the world.

This haunting monument honors the victims of 9/11.

Once considered a marvel of engineering, this 107-mile canal played an integral role in building New York City.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

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

The radio station that's been promising to make love to you for the last 15 years—if you happen to be on one specific block in suburban New Jersey.

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

Balconies that have a most unusual accent.

A French library that makes sure its love of books is writ large... giant in fact.

Striking images of New Orleans history, including colonizers, soldiers, Klansmen, scientists, sharecroppers, and more, are depicted in frescoes that line the walls of this transportation hub.

Since 1929, this institution has been serving one of the most celebrated po’ boys in New Orleans.

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

This cathedral dedicated to Louis IX, sainted King of France, holds many secrets.

This quaint museum in a long-running workshop is dedicated to a fixture in New Orleans lighting.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

This 1960s kinetic artwork has been restored and is once again whirling away in downtown Minneapolis.

A memorial to the late U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone, who died at this location, along with seven others, in a plane crash in 2002.