Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

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

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

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

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

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

This tiny structure was built by the creator of the Brooklyn Bridge.

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

The final resting place of one of the United States's greatest poets.

Several times a year, during low tide, two pairs of historic train tracks are revealed on this New Jersey beach.

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

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

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

One man's lifelong obsession with death.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.

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

The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.

The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

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

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.