These 20-foot sculptures will help guide you from the local train station to the local sculpture garden.

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

The highest point in New Jersey is marked by a massive, if simply named, obelisk.

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

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

A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.

This ominously named New Jersey street seems to be attracting over-the-top legends of its own making.

This unassuming retro burger joint was billed as “diner of the future” at the 1939 World's Fair.

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

Step into Monet's world at this fine-dining restaurant in the middle of a New Jersey sculpture park.

Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.

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

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

This 45-story tall abandoned skyscraper is the third tallest building in New Orleans and Lousiana.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

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

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

A brick-paved former section of the historic coast-to-coast highway.