The highest point in New Jersey is marked by a massive, if simply named, obelisk.

Historic town settled in the 19th century because of its convenient location along a popular coal transport route.

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

Rusting away on the edge of New Jersey are the remains of a Cold War missile launch site.

A historic grist mill and active sluice on the Black River.

Local lore claims this park is named after a young woman who jumped off a cliff.

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

This ominously named New Jersey street seems to be attracting over-the-top legends of its own making.

Tucked behind New Jersey's abandoned Gingerbread Castle lie the eerie ruins of a once-flourishing paper mill.

Once the world's largest reinforced concrete structure, this abandoned bridge now beckons urban explorers.

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.

Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.

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

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

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

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

The boulder on which Alexander Hamilton laid his head as he died can still be visited on the New Jersey coast.

Adherence to strict Jewish laws is required to enter this ultra-conservative New York village.

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

One of the only single-person private gravesites in New York City.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.