Places woodcuts Wants to Go

A historic grist mill and active sluice on the Black River.

A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.

Destructive children, start your engines.

These mystical miniature houses bring a touch of magic to the New Jersey woods.

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

World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.

This scout retreat, still in use today, was the filming location for the original “Friday the 13th” film.

This disastrous New Jersey safari park saw animal attacks, escapes, and disease before being abandoned.

This Great Depression-era creation was once known as the strangest house in the world.

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

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

One man's lifelong obsession with death.

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.

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

Whimsical artist house in the New Jersey woods.

Along the Palisades skyline are the ruins of a large mansion built in 1911 and demolished in the 1930s.

One of the world's largest model railroads is a mind-boggling achievement.

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.

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

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