Places Viking gal Wants to Go

Dinosaurs, magic, and wonder are hidden amid the forests of Allaire State Park.

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

Hidden deep within New Jersey Pine Barrens is a massive graffiti wonderland.

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

The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.

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

One of New Jersey's oldest churches is a historical treasure trove.

Along a busy beachfront strip you may hear Frank Sinatra singing from one boardwalk home.

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

This tiny church near Sleepy Hollow contains Henri Matisse's last work, a rose window, and nine windows by Marc Chagall.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

This sprawling woodland estate was the brainchild of iconic American industrial designer Russel Wright.

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

Frank Lloyd Wright built this suburban synagogue late in life, but it stands among his most iconic masterpieces.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

This stone tower marks a lookout point over the historic Washington Crossing, and maybe some buried treasure.

This strange, big-tailed beast became a Pennsylvania town's unofficial mascot.

For over 80 years, Mayan ruins stood proudly in a most unlikely location.

A distillery built on (and above!) mobster Dutch Schultz's Prohibition-era underground moonshine business.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

A 19th century hat factory still stands as a crumbling ruin in upstate New York.

A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.

Where the famed frontiersman was born, raised, and survived Quaker intrigue

The home of the artist credited with introducing the tomato to the American diet.