Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey
The Sinatra House
Along a busy beachfront strip you may hear Frank Sinatra singing from one boardwalk home.
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Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey
Along a busy beachfront strip you may hear Frank Sinatra singing from one boardwalk home.
Ayden, North Carolina
This family-run joint has been going whole hog for nearly 100 years.
Church Creek, Maryland
The grounds of former plantations where abolitionist Harriet Tubman spent her youth enslaved are now a museum to her incredible life.
Cambridge, Maryland
Historic home of America's sweetheart sharpshooter, Annie Oakley.
Trappe, Maryland
A small ballpark on Maryland's eastern shore pays homage to its favorite son, the most fearsome home run hitter of the dead ball era.
Easton, Maryland
The only one-room schoolhouse remaining in Talbot County, Maryland.
Wye Mills, Maryland
The last remains of one of the oldest and largest oak trees in the United States calls this state park home.
Bath, North Carolina
The oldest church building in the state.
Creswell, North Carolina
This lake—the second largest in the state— was hiding historic treasures beneath its surface.
Suffolk, Virginia
An out-of-the-way wildlife haven with a rich and storied past of harboring thousands of fugitive slaves, or "Maroons" during the mid 1800s.
Manteo, North Carolina
So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.
Manteo, North Carolina
The lesser-known lost colony of Roanoke was a safe haven for formerly enslaved people during the Civil War.
Manteo, North Carolina
Home to the first child born to English colonists in North America, this colony mysteriously disappeared while waiting for supplies.
Point Harbor, North Carolina
The perfect place to take a family of giants for a beach vacation.
Poplar Branch, North Carolina
The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.
Elizabeth City, North Carolina
During World War II, blimps were a key part of the United States' defense against German U-boats—this building could house a dozen of the armed airships.
Kearny, New Jersey
This huge work of functional public art replaced a landfill in New Jersey's Meadowlands.
Bayonne, New Jersey
World Trade Center memorial likened to a woman's sexual organ.
Jersey City, New Jersey
A simple plaque remembers an act of WWI terrorism that obliterated an island and forever scarred the Statue of Liberty.
Weehawken, New Jersey
The boulder on which Alexander Hamilton laid his head after a deadly duel can still be visited on the New Jersey coast.
Hoboken, New Jersey
A bronze plaque at an intersection in Hoboken marks the place where the game of baseball first took shape.
Hoboken, New Jersey
The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.
Jersey City, New Jersey
Known as the "Grand Lady of Jersey City,” the city's first racially-integrated hotel was owned by a preacher who was, depending on who you ask, a cult leader, civil rights pioneer, or the manifestation of God.
Jersey City, New Jersey
Prank calls to this place, originally the "Tube Bar," inspired the creation of a Simpsons character.