Sandyston, New Jersey
Luna Parc
Whimsical artist house in the New Jersey woods.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Hamburg, New Jersey
The Gingerbread Castle
Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.
Hamburg, New Jersey
Hamburg Paper Mill Ruins
Tucked behind New Jersey's abandoned Gingerbread Castle lie the eerie ruins of a once-flourishing paper mill.
Fair Lawn, New Jersey
Radburn, New Jersey
The first neighborhood to implement the Garden City model in its suburban planning.
Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey
Hopper-Zabriskie Cemetery
This crumbling little graveyard was saved from the undergrowth by concerned veterans.
Closter, New Jersey
Women's Federation Monument
A whimsical monument deep in this park commemorates the groups that helped build it.
Permanently Closed
Hackensack, New Jersey
USS Ling Submarine
A World War II-era submarine is stuck in the mud in New Jersey.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
'We the Youth'
South Philadelphia is home to Keith Haring's only surviving in situ collaborative public mural.
Kearny, New Jersey
Sky Mound
This huge work of functional public art replaced a landfill in New Jersey's Meadowlands.
Dover Plains, New York
Madava Farms at Crown Maple
The second largest maple syrup producer in the U.S. runs a high-tech operation.
Permanently Closed
Pine Plains, New York
Dutch's Spirits
A distillery built on (and above!) mobster Dutch Schultz's Prohibition-era underground moonshine business.
Kinderhook, New York
Ichabod Crane Schoolhouse
The schoolhouse where Jesse Merwin, the inspiration for the "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" character, once taught.
Mahopac, New York
Donald J. Trump State Park
This forlorn park is the result of a failed investment turned tax dodge.
Somers, New York
Memorial to America’s First Circus Elephant
This high-perched pachyderm marks the memory of not one, but two elephants gunned down in small New England towns.
North Salem, New York
Balanced Rock
Glacial erratic or man-made dolmen? It probably wasn't druids.
Albany, New York
The First Shaker Village
The first American home of the isolated, egalitarian religion has a trove of Shaker architecture and artifacts.
Schenectady, New York
Vedder Family Cemetery
The small burial plot is located in a mall parking lot.
Schoharie, New York
Site of the First Known Free Open-Air Motion Picture Presentation
A tiny village in Upstate New York ushered in the precursor to drive-in movies.
Hobart, New York
Hobart Book Village
This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.
Roxbury, New York
Villa Sposa
The former home of a disgraced local priest now hosts a mysterious secret supper club.
Roscoe, New York
Agloe, New York
A fictional town that was briefly brought to life before fading once again out of existence.
Neversink, New York
Neversink
The lost town of Neversink, sunk by New York City.
Parksville, New York
Parksville
This Central New York ghost town was once a prosperous railroad community.
Rutherford, New Jersey
Victor Victori's Multiplism Statues
Seven golden statues rise into the sky from sculptor Victor Victori's New Jersey front lawn.
