A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

During the 19th century, you could pay for violence off a prix fixe menu on this Manhattan street.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

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Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

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

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

One of New Jersey's oldest surviving buildings still bears the mark of our former British overlords.

This Delaware River bridge is emblazoned with a catty slogan from a more prosperous time.

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

A unusual sanctuary for abused and exotic animals in South Jersey.

The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

250-year-old farm now features sculptures, a petting zoo and a hippy-bazaar.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

Abandoned Coast Artillery fort now serves as graffiti canvas and sightseeing vantage point.

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

Eco-friendly island mansion.

The second oldest Jewish graveyard in the U.S. is tiny, with connections to George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Oldest synagogue in the United States.

A plaque marks the spot on the bridge where one of the first elephants in the U.S., Little Bet, was gunned down.

Only a shrine remains at the site of the catastrophic nightclub inferno that killed 100 Great White fans.