Places BOEK Wants to Go

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

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

Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.

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

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

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

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

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

American involvement in World War I officially ended in 1921 in New Jersey, three years late and thousands of miles from the battlefield.

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

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.

New Jersey's last historic covered bridge was rebuilt from pieces of the original 19th-century structure.

Nassau Hall has served as army barracks, a museum, and played a key role in the American Revolution.

One man's lifelong obsession with death.

The mysterious canine hides atop a drain pipe on the back of the building, some say as a sneaky shoutout to Yale.

This tiny structure was built by the creator of the Brooklyn Bridge.

An unusual assortment of steerable wooden sleds is on display in a library in New Jersey where they were first invented.

The first partially complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered here, forever changing the world's view of the ruling reptiles.

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

A completely round house designed for the Atomic Age.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

Thousands of Matchbox cars spanning generations call this New Jersey barn home.

This Great Depression-era creation was once known as the strangest house in the world.