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

This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

The only pachinko parlor in the United States.

The final resting place of one of the United States's greatest poets.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

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

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

Where the embers of the Big Bang were first detected.

The first dish to bounce radio signals off the Moon, it was the forerunner to the U.S. Space Program.

Hidden deep within New Jersey Pine Barrens is a massive graffiti wonderland.

The site of the notorious Camp Sumter Prison is now a peaceful memorial.

This exoskeleton was gifted to Rutgers University by Japan for its role in educating some of the first Japanese citizens to study outside the country.

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

Along a busy beachfront strip you may hear Frank Sinatra singing from one boardwalk home.

Dinosaurs, magic, and wonder are hidden amid the forests of Allaire State Park.

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

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

A "Bugseum" dedicated to all things insect-related resides behind a pest control company.

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

Western New York's largest independent bookstore doubles as a historical repository of all things Niagara Falls.

A museum dedicated exclusively to aircraft used in the military.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

This abandoned Poconos resort is haunted by a history of kitschy romance and a violent fugitive.