An allegedly cursed tree represents a town's reckoning with a racist past.

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

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

While most wind tunnels test scale models, the "Cave of Winds" was large enough for actual airplanes.

This strange, big-tailed beast became a Pennsylvania town's unofficial mascot.

A museum of anything and everything Stooge.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

Nassau Hall has served as army barracks, a museum, and played a key role in the American Revolution.

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

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

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

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

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

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

The US Navy's only submarine museum is also home to the world's first nuclear submarine.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

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

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

One of the world's largest model railroads is a mind-boggling achievement.

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

The way these carnivorous dinosaurs are posed is an homage to a classic work of paleoart.