This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.

A whimsical monument deep in this park commemorates the groups that helped build it.

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

American involvement in World War I officially ended in 1921 in New Jersey, three years late and thousands of miles from the battlefield.

The first partially complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered here, forever changing the world's view of the ruling reptiles.

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

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

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

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

This petite park lets visitors see and touch examples of fossilized dinosaur tracks.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

The "possessed" house that inspired "The Haunting in Connecticut" book and movie.

A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.

Connecticut sites linked to the only trial to ever use demonic possession as a criminal defense.

A castle inspired by medieval architecture is hidden in the woods of Connecticut.

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

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

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

This hospital fell into ruins after failing to act as the advocate for the mentally ill it was designed to be.

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