Places ellecagey Wants to Go

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

An allegedly cursed tree represents a town's reckoning with a racist past.

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

Once forgotten, this strip of sand was a rare beachside haven for Black Americans in Atlantic City.

Come for the Italian food, stay for the taxidermy and giant statues.

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

If it feels like a speakeasy, that’s because it probably was one.

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.

Vintage cars and motorcycles race for glory in a throwback motorsport celebration on the Jersey shore.

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

A completely round house designed for the Atomic Age.

Several times a year, during low tide, two pairs of historic train tracks are revealed on this New Jersey beach.

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

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

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

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

Step into Monet's world at this fine-dining restaurant in the middle of a New Jersey sculpture park.