Brooklyn, New York
Plumb Beach
Now owned by the National Park Service, this location was once home to illegal boxing matches.
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Brooklyn, New York
Now owned by the National Park Service, this location was once home to illegal boxing matches.
Bronx, New York
The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.
New Brunswick, New Jersey
A mixture of strange symbols, ciphers, words and cryptograms carved in 1876 remain unsolved to this day.
Holmdel, New Jersey
This water tower commemorates the invention of the transistor on this site in 1947.
Piscataway, New Jersey
One of the last-standing and most prominent structures from a long-lost colonial port community.
New Brunswick, New Jersey
This exoskeleton was gifted to Rutgers University by Japan for its role in educating some of the first Japanese citizens to study outside the country.
Piscataway, New Jersey
A historic town sits upon the site of a long-lost 18th-century trading community.
Asbury Park, New Jersey
Memorial to the 137 lives lost on a ship fire, the whole hulk of which washed up on the Asbury Park shore.
Princeton, New Jersey
Nassau Hall has served as army barracks, a museum, and played a key role in the American Revolution.
Carlstadt, New Jersey
Infamous marsh filled with toxic waste, World War II-era London rubble, and dead mobsters galore.
New Brunswick, New Jersey
Seven people are buried in the middle of what's now a movie theater parking lot.
Jersey City, New Jersey
On the Hudson resides one of the largest clocks in the world.
Trenton, New Jersey
This Delaware River bridge is emblazoned with a catty slogan from a more prosperous time.
Hamilton Township, New Jersey
These 20-foot sculptures will help guide you from the local train station to the local sculpture garden.
Asbury Park, New Jersey
Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.
Highlands, New Jersey
Rusting away on the edge of New Jersey are the remains of a Cold War missile launch site.
Asbury Park, New Jersey
A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.
Bethel, New York
The dairy farm in upstate New York where nearly half a million people gathered for three days of peace and music in 1969.
Millburn, New Jersey
These mystical miniature houses bring a touch of magic to the New Jersey woods.
Hamilton Township, New Jersey
Step into Monet's world at this fine-dining restaurant in the middle of a New Jersey sculpture park.
Asbury Park, New Jersey
A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.
Hamilton Township, New Jersey
A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.