This evocative New Jersey statue memoralizes the Polish victims of a Soviet massacre.

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

This disastrous New Jersey safari park saw animal attacks, escapes, and disease before being abandoned.

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

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

Rusting away on the edge of New Jersey are the remains of a Cold War missile launch site.

The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."

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.

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

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

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

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

Current docking place of the SS United States, the fastest transatlantic ocean liner.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.

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

Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.