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An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

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

An ideal wedding spot that is almost too ideal.

Where the embers of the Big Bang were first detected.

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

Local lore claims this park is named after a young woman who jumped off a cliff.

This huge, disused viaduct is now a crumbling concrete underworld of covered in years of graffiti.

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

The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."

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

The first of Lancaster's "rural cemeteries."

A unusual sanctuary for abused and exotic animals in South Jersey.

The remains of an old sawmill, gristmill and the surrounding industry dating back to the 18th century.

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

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

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

A scenic fort on the harbor protected Philadelphia from an attack that never came.

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

Rising out of a clearing in New Jersey's Pine Barrens is an Aztec-inspired monument to the "Lindbergh of Mexico."

The famous bell was secreted away and hidden in a church in Allentown during the British occupation of Philadelphia.

The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.