Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

This massive boulder is either a unique rock formation created by glacial melt or a magic energy vortex.

A small structure built from used railroad ties honors the short term of America's 20th president.

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

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

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

A wooden theatre that remains the heart of a charming Victorian-era New Jersey enclave.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

An eccentric priest's tribute to George Washington, this chapel tells the story of the American Revolution.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

A trompe-l'oeil statue honoring the first guide dog in North America.

Two mermen, eternally spitting into each other's mouths.

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

A bronze plaque at an intersection in Hoboken marks the place where the game of baseball first took shape.

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.