New-Jersey Facts

Eight-year-old Olivia Heid and her 4-year-old brother RJ sled off a ridge and vanish into a frozen New Jersey pond. Kieran Foley, 14, loses a boot in the mud and keeps going barefoot. His four friends link arms behind him on the ice. One by one, he hands both kids down the chain to shore.

The Statue of Liberty's torch has been closed since July 30, 1916 - and will never reopen. German saboteurs detonated roughly 2 million pounds of explosives at a New Jersey depot. The blast hit like an earthquake up to magnitude 5.5, lodging shrapnel in the copper skin and cracking the torch arm's iron frame. Only a handful of NPS staff have been up there since.