Hoboken, New Jersey
Birthplace of Baseball Monument
A bronze plaque at an intersection in Hoboken marks the place where the game of baseball first took shape.
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Hoboken, New Jersey
A bronze plaque at an intersection in Hoboken marks the place where the game of baseball first took shape.
Jersey City, New Jersey
On the Hudson resides one of the largest clocks in the world.
Highlands, New Jersey
These unassuming lighthouses have seen the first reading of the Pledge of Allegiance, the first wireless transmission, and more than one mystery.
Asbury Park, New Jersey
Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.
Bayonne, New Jersey
World Trade Center memorial likened to a woman's sexual organ.
Highlands, New Jersey
Rusting away on the edge of New Jersey are the remains of a Cold War missile launch site.
Asbury Park, New Jersey
Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.
Vineland, New Jersey
This Great Depression-era creation was once known as the strangest house in the world.
Weehawken, New Jersey
The boulder on which Alexander Hamilton laid his head after a deadly duel can still be visited on the New Jersey coast.
Cape May, New Jersey
World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.
Margate City, New Jersey
Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."
Asbury Park, New Jersey
A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.
Hoboken, New Jersey
The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.
Asbury Park, New Jersey
A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.
Hamilton Township, New Jersey
A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.
Jersey City, New Jersey
Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.
Salt Lake City, Utah
Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.
Salt Lake City, Utah
A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.
Teec Nos Pos, Utah
The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.
Chimayo, New Mexico
This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.
Roswell, New Mexico
A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.