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New York, New York

Obscura Antiques and Oddities

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

Detail of the Texaco map terrazzo mosaic tile floor of the New York State Pavilion (Tent of Tomorrow), 2009

Queens, New York

Flushing Meadows-Corona Park

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

Kaaterskill Falls and the Bayard of Dogs

Haines Falls, New York

Kaaterskill Falls and the Bayard of Dogs

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

Museum of Sex

New York, New York

Museum of Sex

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Bangor Police Museum

Bangor, Maine

Bangor Police Museum

This museum explores the history of policing and is also home to a very popular taxidermied duck.

Goddard Mansion

Cape Elizabeth, Maine

Goddard Mansion

Abandoned Italianate architecture on the coast of Maine.

Mount Hope Cemetery

Bangor, Maine

Mount Hope Cemetery

The second-oldest garden cemetery in the U.S. was also a college brainstorm spot of Stephen King.

Paul Bunyan Statue, Bangor

Bangor, Maine

Paul Bunyan Statue

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

Gun emplacement of Battery Steele

Portland, Maine

Battery Steele

Explore the dark underground corridors of this graffiti-covered former military fortification.

The house with a hedge around it

Bangor, Maine

Stephen King's Former House

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.

Bell Labs water tower

Holmdel, New Jersey

Bell Laboratories Transistor Water Tower

This water tower commemorates the invention of the transistor on this site in 1947.

Satellite antennae at the Holmdel Teleport.

Holmdel, New Jersey

Holmdel Teleport

This giant satellite antenna services the transmission needs of government agencies and cable programmers.

Centennial Rock with the carvings "E Suydam 1876 M Danbury Centennial Year." Followed by the mysterious cypher. Unfortunately, weathering and possible vandalism has made much of the carving illegible. Early images of the carving in a better state of preservation can be viewed here: https://weirdnj.com/stories/cryptic-carvings-along-lawrence-brook/

New Brunswick, New Jersey

Lawrence Brook Carvings

A mixture of strange symbols, ciphers, words and cryptograms carved in 1876 remain unsolved to this day.

The Gingerbread Castle

Hamburg, New Jersey

The Gingerbread Castle

Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.

Salem Witch Trials Memorial

Salem, Massachusetts

Salem Witch Trials Memorial

A simple but powerful tribute to the 20 victims of the 1692 witch trials.

Statue of Elizabeth Montgomery

Salem, Massachusetts

Statue of Elizabeth Montgomery

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

The House of the Seven Gables

Salem, Massachusetts

House of the Seven Gables

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

Salem Witch House

Salem, Massachusetts

The Witch House of Salem

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

The Diana Site.

Wall Township, New Jersey

Project Diana Site

The first dish to bounce radio signals off the Moon, it was the forerunner to the U.S. Space Program.

The gravesite among the asphalt.

New Brunswick, New Jersey

Evans/Ellis Cemetery

Seven people are buried in the middle of what's now a movie theater parking lot.

Navesink Twin Lights

Highlands, New Jersey

Navesink Twin Lights

These unassuming lighthouses have seen the first reading of the Pledge of Allegiance, the first wireless transmission, and more than one mystery.

Another one of the windows

Manchester Township, New Jersey

Cathedral of the Air

Beautiful stained glass depictions of the history of human flight fill this surprising chapel.

Sandy Hook Nike Launch Site

Highlands, New Jersey

Sandy Hook Nike Launch Site

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

Monkey on a fence

Lacey Township, New Jersey

Popcorn Park Zoo

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

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