Places hopemch Wants to Go

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

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

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

A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.

Destructive children, start your engines.

This massive boulder is either a unique rock formation created by glacial melt or a magic energy vortex.

World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.

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

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

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

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

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

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

Expertly restored pinball machines as far as the eye can see.

A man killed in a hunting accident is eternally guarded by a granite hound tombstone.

One of 100 “Whaling Wall" murals painted in 13 different countries by a renowned marine life artist.