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

Along the Palisades skyline are the ruins of a large mansion built in 1911 and demolished in the 1930s.

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

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

This stone tower marks a lookout point over the historic Washington Crossing, and maybe some buried treasure.

A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.

The overgrown remains of an old rail bridge rise above the valley like ancient Greek ruins.

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

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

Destructive children, start your engines.

A small structure built from used railroad ties honors the short term of America's 20th president.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.

A forsaken wonder in the middle of the East Side neighborhood.

Cairns built to bring travelers good luck stretch across the land like miniature stone mountains.

Black cat statues guard this temple-like Egyptian revival factory.

This big empty pig is a nostalgic throwback to mid-20th-century Texas barbecue.

Legend says the goddess this shrine honors curses any couples that pass by.

This lavish room in a New York City mansion is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

The abandoned fishing village was swept right into the sea.

See wolves, coyotes, and arctic foxes in a natural environment smack in the middle of New York State.