Vilnius, Lithuania
The Church of St. Anne
Legend has it that Napoleon Bonaparte fell in love with this Gothic church.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
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."
Holmdel, New Jersey
Bell Laboratories Transistor Water Tower
This water tower commemorates the invention of the transistor on this site in 1947.
Permanently Closed
Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey
Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital
This hospital fell into ruins after failing to act as the advocate for the mentally ill it was designed to be.
New Brunswick, New Jersey
Evans/Ellis Cemetery
Seven people are buried in the middle of what's now a movie theater parking lot.
Shrewsbury, New Jersey
Christ Church Shrewsbury
One of New Jersey's oldest churches is a historical treasure trove.
Cape May, New Jersey
Wreck of the S.S. Atlantus
The rusting remains are visible sticking out of the waters of the Delaware Bay.
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.
Matawan, New Jersey
Glenwood Institute
A condo complex once housed a boarding school with the 24th U.S. Vice President among its notable alumni.
Permanently Closed
Ovid, New York
Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane
An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.
Salaspils, Latvia
Salaspils Memorial Ensemble
This former Nazi labor camp is now a poignant memorial, complete with giant Soviet-style monuments.
Oneida, New York
Oneida Community Mansion House
The shared home of a utopian commune that practiced "free love" a century before the hippies.
Fayetteville, New York
Green Lakes State Park
Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.
Moscow, Russia
'Worker and Kolkhoz Woman'
An iconic Soviet statue of working-class people.
Moscow, Russia
Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy
This newly renovated Soviet-era outdoor exhibition center is bigger than the principality of Monaco.
Moscow, Russia
Monument to the Conquerors of Space
Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.
Moscow, Russia
Moscow Metro Stations
The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.
Romulus, New York
Seneca White Deer
World's largest herd of white deer populate a former U.S. Army depot.
Ithaca, New York
Six Mile Creek
In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.
Ithaca, New York
The A. D. White Library
The library of every book lover's dreams.
Highlands, New Jersey
Sandy Hook Nike Launch Site
Rusting away on the edge of New Jersey are the remains of a Cold War missile launch site.
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Mercer Museum and Fonthill Castle
Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.
New York, New York
Unicorn Tapestries at the Cloisters
Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.
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.
