Places istnbl Wants to Go

Tucked behind New Jersey's abandoned Gingerbread Castle lie the eerie ruins of a once-flourishing paper mill.

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

One of the world's largest model railroads is a mind-boggling achievement.

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

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

One man's lifelong obsession with death.

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

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

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.

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

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

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.

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

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 recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.

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

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

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

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

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.