Staten Island, New York
Kreischer Mansion
This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.
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Staten Island, New York
This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.
Clifton, New Jersey
Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.
Scranton, Pennsylvania
Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.
Hamilton Township, New Jersey
Step into Monet's world at this fine-dining restaurant in the middle of a New Jersey sculpture park.
Trenton, New Jersey
The way these carnivorous dinosaurs are posed is an homage to a classic work of paleoart.
West Orange, New Jersey
Thomas Edison's home and final resting place also boasts an impressive garage, where some of the earliest electric cars are on display.
West Windsor Township, New Jersey
A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.
Hopkinton, Rhode Island
This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.
Ellicott City, Maryland
Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.
Bridgeport, Connecticut
The once abandoned ruins of a Victorian beachside amusement park are now back in working order.
West Milford, New Jersey
This disastrous New Jersey safari park saw animal attacks, escapes, and disease before being abandoned.
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.
New Hope, Pennsylvania
A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.
New Hope, Pennsylvania
This strange, big-tailed beast became a Pennsylvania town's unofficial mascot.
Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
This jail which was in service for over a century is now open for curious visitors.
Cresco, Pennsylvania
These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.
Milford, New Jersey
The only thing better than tubing down New Jersey's scenic Delaware River is doing so while eating a hot dog from a giant floating stand.
Independence Township, New Jersey
This ominously named New Jersey street seems to be attracting over-the-top legends of its own making.
Union, Connecticut
This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.
Warwick, Rhode Island
Once the largest attraction in Rhode Island, this former amusement park is now a gorgeous coastal state park.
Rock, West Virginia
This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.
Boston, Massachusetts
The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.
Boston, Massachusetts
The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.
Worcester, Massachusetts
This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.