West Milford, New Jersey
Jungle Habitat
This disastrous New Jersey safari park saw animal attacks, escapes, and disease before being abandoned.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
West Milford, New Jersey
This disastrous New Jersey safari park saw animal attacks, escapes, and disease before being abandoned.
Nyack, New York
Haunted Victorian house that inspired a legendary "Ghostbusters" court ruling.
Tappan, New York
This derelict building used to house infirm Freemasons, their widows, and orphans.
Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey
This crumbling little graveyard was saved from the undergrowth by concerned veterans.
Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey
This hospital fell into ruins after failing to act as the advocate for the mentally ill it was designed to be.
Clifton, New Jersey
Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.
Matawan, New Jersey
The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."
Princeton, New Jersey
One man's lifelong obsession with death.
West Windsor Township, New Jersey
A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.
Lakehurst, New Jersey
The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.
Venice, Italy
Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.
Venice, Italy
This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.
Venice, Italy
This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.
Venice, Italy
A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.
Venice, Italy
As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.
Venice, Italy
Venice's "Island of the Mad."
Plymouth, Massachusetts
Plymouth's huge yet little-known memorial to the Pilgrims.
Rochester, Massachusetts
Haunted boulder in a front yard with a witch painted on it.
Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.
Bangor, Maine
The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.
New York, New York
A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.
New York, New York
A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.
New York, New York
A plaque immortalizes the spot where the early American spy said his famous last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
New York, New York
Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.