Places arianalbear Wants to Go

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

Featuring the the longest lift span of any vertical-lift bridge in the world.

Originally built in 1869, this castle is currently part of Felician University's campus.

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

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

Infamous marsh filled with toxic waste, World War II-era London rubble, and dead mobsters galore.

A World War II-era submarine is stuck in the mud in New Jersey.

Seven golden statues rise into the sky from sculptor Victor Victori's New Jersey front lawn.

A whimsical monument deep in this park commemorates the groups that helped build it.

Edison's cast-in-place concrete houses were a failure, but way ahead of their time.

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

Historic town settled in the 19th century because of its convenient location along a popular coal transport route.

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

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

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

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

A historic grist mill and active sluice on the Black River.

Tucked behind New Jersey's abandoned Gingerbread Castle lie the eerie ruins of a once-flourishing paper mill.

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

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

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.