Egg Harbor City, New Jersey
Batsto Village
This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.
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Egg Harbor City, New Jersey
This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.
Trenton, New Jersey
One of New Jersey's oldest surviving buildings still bears the mark of our former British overlords.
Delaware City, Delaware
A scenic fort on the harbor protected Philadelphia from an attack that never came.
Trenton, New Jersey
This Delaware River bridge is emblazoned with a catty slogan from a more prosperous time.
Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.
Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
This historic old movie house was the scene of one of the Blob's most iconic attacks.
Wantage, New Jersey
The highest point in New Jersey is marked by a massive, if simply named, obelisk.
Malvern, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvanian mass grave and possibly mass murder.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.
Shiprock, New Mexico
Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.
Coolidge, Arizona
Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.
Maastricht, Netherlands
This historical Netherlands fortress still bears the marks of its single siege.
Trier, Germany
The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.
Schwangau, Germany
The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”
Munich, Germany
Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.
Munich, Germany
Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.
Potsdam, Germany
The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.
Detmold, Germany
This proud Teutonic warrior rises out of a German forest heralding a victory and measuring lightning.
Leipzig, Germany
This incredible stone temple is a monument to death, victory, and fantasy architecture.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."
Neustadt, Germany
The natural mummy of the less than chivalrous Knight Kahlbutz.