Places rebeccamilk Wants to Go

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

View roughly 7,000 books amassed over decades by the author and avid bibliophile.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

Eccentric stone cairns built on a public New York City beach.

Devotional offerings and pleas for intercession are left at this Depression-era shrine inside a nature preserve.

A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.

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

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

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

During the American Revolution, this mansion hosted failed peace talks between the British and Americans.

Seven people are buried in the middle of what's now a movie theater parking lot.

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.

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

One-time largest man-made structure in the world will be a park in 30 years.

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

The final resting place of some of Staten Island's earliest settlers and their descendants.

Final resting place of two dozen New York City harbor ships.

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

These mystical miniature houses bring a touch of magic to the New Jersey woods.

The final resting place of a famous 19th-century murder victim whose identity is still a mystery.

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

This old-fashioned candy shop, ice cream parlor, and diner served as the setting for one of TV's most controversial series finales.