Come for the Italian food, stay for the taxidermy and giant statues.

A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

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

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

The rusting remains are visible sticking out of the waters of the Delaware Bay.

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

Memorial to the 137 lives lost on a ship fire, the whole hulk of which washed up on the Asbury Park shore.

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

This Boy Scout retreat acted as "Friday the 13th"'s original Camp Crystal Lake.

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

These 20-foot sculptures will help guide you from the local train station to the local sculpture garden.

These unassuming lighthouses have seen the first reading of the Pledge of Allegiance, the first wireless transmission, and more than one mystery.

A playground inspired by differential calculus dangles from the ceiling of the Liberty Science Center.

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

The mysterious canine hides atop a drain pipe on the back of the building, some say as a sneaky shoutout to Yale.

The final resting place of a famous 19th-century murder victim whose identity is still a mystery.

A wooden theatre that remains the heart of a charming Victorian-era New Jersey enclave.

Step into Monet's world at this fine-dining restaurant in the middle of a New Jersey sculpture park.

An extraordinary collection of vampire-themed antiques lurks on the second floor of a store.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

An eerie diorama that captures the majestic nature of a few prehistoric-looking beasts.

This poignant display is now a memorial to these regionally extinct species.