Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia City Hall
This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.
Carlstadt, New Jersey
Infamous marsh filled with toxic waste, World War II-era London rubble, and dead mobsters galore.
Asbury Park, New Jersey
Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.
Morristown, New Jersey
A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.
Mount Bethel, Pennsylvania
This huge, disused viaduct is now a crumbling concrete underworld of covered in years of graffiti.
Chester Township, New Jersey
A farm in New Jersey grew a most unusual crop for AT&T's testing purposes.
Chester, New Jersey
A historic grist mill and active sluice on the Black River.
Stanhope, New Jersey
Historic town settled in the 19th century because of its convenient location along a popular coal transport route.
Independence Township, New Jersey
This ominously named New Jersey street seems to be attracting over-the-top legends of its own making.
Hope, New Jersey
Local lore claims this park is named after a young woman who jumped off a cliff.
Boonton Township, New Jersey
This massive boulder is either a unique rock formation created by glacial melt or a magic energy vortex.
Wantage, New Jersey
The highest point in New Jersey is marked by a massive, if simply named, obelisk.
Tuxedo Park, New York
The remains of the furnace and iron works that produced the massive Hudson River Chain still stand in the woods of New York.
Hardwick, New Jersey
This scout retreat, still in use today, was the filming location for the original “Friday the 13th” film.
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.
Peebles, Ohio
The largest earthwork effigy in the world.
Washington, D.C.
Largest Roman Catholic church in North America.
Arlington, Virginia
This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.
Arlington, Virginia
Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.
Fredericksburg, Virginia
This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.
Luray, Virginia
An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.
Wall, South Dakota
The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.