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The final resting place of many of New Jersey's most famous residents, including U.S. history's most in-vogue antagonist, Aaron Burr.

The highest point in New Jersey is marked by a massive, if simply named, obelisk.

One of New Jersey's oldest surviving buildings still bears the mark of our former British overlords.

Historic town settled in the 19th century because of its convenient location along a popular coal transport route.

Local lore claims this park is named after a young woman who jumped off a cliff.

A playground inspired by differential calculus dangles from the ceiling of the Liberty Science Center.

American involvement in World War I officially ended in 1921 in New Jersey, three years late and thousands of miles from the battlefield.

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

Rusting away on the edge of New Jersey are the remains of a Cold War missile launch site.

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

Where the embers of the Big Bang were first detected.

A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.

This tiny structure was built by the creator of the Brooklyn Bridge.

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

Once the world's largest reinforced concrete structure, this abandoned bridge now beckons urban explorers.

A completely round house designed for the Atomic Age.

This ominously named New Jersey street seems to be attracting over-the-top legends of its own making.

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

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

The boulder on which Alexander Hamilton laid his head after a deadly duel can still be visited on the New Jersey coast.

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

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

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

A unusual sanctuary for abused and exotic animals in South Jersey.