Rio Grande, New Jersey
Menz Restaurant & Bar
Come for the Italian food, stay for the taxidermy and giant statues.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Rahway, New Jersey
Grave of the Unknown Woman
The final resting place of a famous 19th-century murder victim whose identity is still a mystery.
Trenton, New Jersey
Old Barracks Museum
One of New Jersey's oldest surviving buildings still bears the mark of our former British overlords.
Linwood, New Jersey
Clara Glen Pet Cemetery
This quaint New Jersey graveyard is an eternal resting place for thousands of beloved pets.
Wildwood, New Jersey
The Race of Gentlemen
Vintage cars and motorcycles race for glory in a throwback motorsport celebration on the Jersey shore.
Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton Cemetery
The final resting place of many of New Jersey's most famous residents, including U.S. history's most in-vogue antagonist, Aaron Burr.
Bridgewater, New Jersey
The Spot Where WWI Ended
American involvement in World War I officially ended in 1921 in New Jersey, three years late and thousands of miles from the battlefield.
Asbury Park, New Jersey
Asbury Park Casino and Carousel House
Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.
Milford, New Jersey
The Famous River Hot Dog Man
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.
Morristown, New Jersey
Morris Museum
A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.
Camden, New Jersey
Walt Whitman's Grave
The final resting place of one of the United States's greatest poets.
West Windsor Township, New Jersey
'War of the Worlds' Monument
A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.
Princeton, New Jersey
Laurence Hutton Collection of Life and Death Masks
One man's lifelong obsession with death.
Asbury Park, New Jersey
Silverball Museum Arcade
A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.
Matawan, New Jersey
Site of the New Jersey Shark Attacks of 1916
The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."
Hamburg, New Jersey
The Gingerbread Castle
Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.
Berkeley Heights, New Jersey
The Deserted Village of Feltville
This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.
Glen Gardner, New Jersey
Abandoned Hagedorn Psychiatric Hospital
A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.
Asbury Park, New Jersey
Paranormal Museum
A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.
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Hicksville, New York
The Long Island Puppet Theater
The last standing puppet theater on Long Island.
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Richfield Springs, New York
Petrified Creatures Museum of Natural History
This roadside dinosaur park offered up lumpy neon thunder lizards in the name of kitsch and education.
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Niagara Falls, New York
Niagara Science Museum
Collection of antique science instruments displayed in recreated 1870-1930 laboratories.
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Roslyn, New York
The Ruins of Harbor Hill
All that remains of a magnate's dream home is a historic gate and an abandoned public pool.
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Kingston, New York
The Dollhouse
An abandoned dollhouse factory.
