Places rebeccamilk Wants to Go

Step into Monet's world at this fine-dining restaurant in the middle of a New Jersey sculpture park.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

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

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

An enormous overgrown greenhouse teeming with graffiti and wildlife.

One of the oldest carousels in the United States is still running in the coastal village of Watch Hill.

A free display of artistic lifesize dinosaur sculptures in a backyard garden.

The farmhouse where a reclusive sculptor and printmaker created thousands of works.

Springtime is go time for this repurposed shack and the fish it venerates.

The Connecticut village named for its subterranean thunder.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

This picturesque Victorian ghost town was once a thriving mill community.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?

A mysterious air force base built to resemble a Long Island fishing village.

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

One of America's first spies started out as a teacher in this little red one-room schoolhouse.

The US Navy's only submarine museum is also home to the world's first nuclear submarine.

This opera house along the banks of the Connecticut River has two Tony Awards to its credit but it’s never staged a single opera.

The world's largest indoor go-kart racetrack is hiding in Connecticut.

One of the earliest graveyards in the region.