Places achughesco Wants to Go

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

Filled with history, this cemetery is maintained each summer by a few hungry goats.

This huge work of functional public art replaced a landfill in New Jersey's Meadowlands.

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

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

Once the world's largest reinforced concrete structure, this abandoned bridge now beckons urban explorers.

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

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

The ruins of one of the first railroads in the U.S. lie hidden within a neighborhood cul-de-sac.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

This unassuming retro burger joint was billed as “diner of the future” at the 1939 World's Fair.

World Trade Center memorial likened to a woman's sexual organ.

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

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

The ruins of this long-abandoned unsuccessful gold mine can still be found.