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This Delaware River bridge is emblazoned with a catty slogan from a more prosperous time.

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

One man's lifelong obsession with death.

Delicate Wurlitzers, creepy clowns, and The Noid all share space in this insane explosion of kitsch history.

Nassau Hall has served as army barracks, a museum, and played a key role in the American Revolution.

This stone tower marks a lookout point over the historic Washington Crossing, and maybe some buried treasure.

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

A surprising museum of 20th-century technology.

These 20-foot sculptures will help guide you from the local train station to the local sculpture garden.

Arlington Cemetery exhibit dedicated to death and grieving.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

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

Hidden behind West Philadelphia rowhomes is a haven for migratory and local bird species both ordinary and rare.

A tiny, unmarked beer and whiskey bar above an Ethiopian restaurant in West Philly fails to conceal live bluegrass.

Memorial to the 137 lives lost on a ship fire, the whole hulk of which washed up on the Asbury Park shore.

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

The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."

South Philadelphia is home to Keith Haring's only surviving in situ collaborative public mural.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

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The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.