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This disastrous New Jersey safari park saw animal attacks, escapes, and disease before being abandoned.

One man's lifelong obsession with death.

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

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

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

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

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

This scout retreat, still in use today, was the filming location for the original “Friday the 13th” film.

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

Whimsical artist house in the New Jersey woods.

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

Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.

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

A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

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

This massive melon is a recreation of a similar gate from the Pan-American Expo.

In DeWitt, New York, a blanket-wrapped gas station makes a creative statement on global dependence on oil.

Check your calendars; you might be attending a drive-in movie or sitting next to a fashion runway.

These expertly crafted, scientifically accurate glass sea creatures were once an international phenomenon.

Historic Greenpoint theater turned roller disco, then chain pharmacy, and now Sweetgreen.

A massive art collective tries a new take on Brooklyn's DIY music scene—by making it fully legal.

A graffiti Mecca welcoming artists from around the world.

The first evidence of some of the Earth's earliest life was found in this fossilized undersea grotto.