Destructive children, start your engines.

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

This private island is still in the family after a 400-year history including a witch hunt, a pirate, and multiple wars.

A tiny islet just off Long Island offers a wealth of infectious curiosities.

Want to build a wind turbine? Secede from the nation.

An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.

The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.

This abandoned artificial island off the coast of New York City is now home to dozens of harbor seals.

This outpost of America's most popular fast-food restaurant is housed inside a palatial mansion.

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

Hundreds of personalized inscribed planks make up this historic boardwalk.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

An abandoned dollhouse factory.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

This 19th-century Hamptons windmill was once home to modernist painter Agnes Pelton.

Hike deep into the woods to explore this Gilded Age masterpiece.

This beautiful Brooklyn monument over a crypt memorializes a grim and largely unknown story from the American Revolution.

Here be dragons.

The remains of the furnace and iron works that produced the massive Hudson River Chain still stand in the woods of New York.

The oldest continuously operating farm in New York State.