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

In the power of this waterfall, Alexander Hamilton saw the potential for industry.

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.

The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.

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

An approximately 500 million-year-old rock outcropping covered in fossilized bacteria.

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.

Whimsical artist house in the New Jersey woods.

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.

A farm in New Jersey grew a most unusual crop for AT&T's testing purposes.

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

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

This Hindu temple in suburban New Jersey is the largest in the United States and one of the largest in the world.

These unassuming lighthouses have seen the first reading of the Pledge of Allegiance, the first wireless transmission, and more than one mystery.

The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.

How this Pine Barrens hill got its name is uncertain, but on a good day the view from the fire tower is crystal clear.

This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.

The third-tallest lighthouse in the United States stands as a reminder of Atlantic City's early days.

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.

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