Places joyzbst Wants to Go

Take a step into the workshop where Edison and his employees revolutionized the world.

A small cave hidden deep within the Jenny Jump State Forest.

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

In the power of this waterfall, Alexander Hamilton saw the potential for industry.

This massive boulder is either a unique rock formation created by glacial melt or a magic energy vortex.

One man's lifelong obsession with death.

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

A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.

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

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

This historic Georgian mansion contains a hidden room that was used to harbor a fugitive in the days of the Underground Railroad.

This 17th-century place of worship still celebrates holidays in the traditional Swedish fashion.

What if the Fountain of Youth was actually found in Delaware? One historic coastal town believes it to be true.

In 1787, a group of delegates met at this very spot to drink, be merry, and ratify the Constitution of the United States.

A grotesque Fiji merman dwells within this traditional Dutch-style building.

A desiccated merman and a walrus penis bone are among the oddities in this eclectic collection of shipwreck treasures.

Tucked away in the forest, these giant wooden trolls delight visitors in Charlestown, Rhode Island.

The secluded beach getaway from Wes Anderson's dreamy summer romance.

Rumors of the occult haunt this upscale 1920s hotel.

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

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

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

Once part of a dam servicing an early 19th century grist mill, the tucked-way falls are a tricky-to-find urban oasis.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.