Make your way to the merriest areas in New York as you check out the sparkling lights and festive displays of Dyker Heights and Bay Ridge. Snap photos of these over-the-top decorations, find out how it all got started, and enjoy a side trip to the lavish decorations in Rockefeller Centre.

Hop aboard a comfortable coach in Manhattan and cruise over the East River, bound for the dazzling holiday lights in Dyker Heights. When you arrive, jump out and start exploring. Admire life-size nutcrackers, glowing nativity sets, and—of course—millions of twinkling lights stretched out over roofs, around windows, and across manicured gardens.

Get the skinny on the neighborhood's ornamental origins and then continue your electrical excursion, looking at the lights in Brooklyn's Bay Ridge, grabbing views of the Manhattan skyline from across the water near the Brooklyn Bridge.