Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

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

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

This hospital fell into ruins after failing to act as the advocate for the mentally ill it was designed to be.

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

This ominously named New Jersey street seems to be attracting over-the-top legends of its own making.

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

Where the embers of the Big Bang were first detected.

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

Seven people are buried in the middle of what's now a movie theater parking lot.

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

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.

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

A pride of the state, this working museum crafts pottery mosaics in the style of Pennsylvania's earliest European settlers.

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

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

This stone tower marks a lookout point over the historic Washington Crossing, and maybe some buried treasure.

The final resting place of many of New Jersey's most famous residents, including U.S. history's most in-vogue antagonist, Aaron Burr.

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