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

This haunting monument honors the victims of 9/11.

A simple plaque remembers an act of WWI terrorism that obliterated an island and forever scarred the Statue of Liberty.

Known as the "Grand Lady of Jersey City,” the city's first racially-integrated hotel was owned by a preacher who was, depending on who you ask, a cult leader, civil rights pioneer, or the manifestation of God.

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

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

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

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

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

Brooklyn’s wildest restaurant is serving ice cream in snail shells and marrow bones.

Every spring brings a colorful tribute to this wizardly actor's most famous role.

This house was the subject of an Edward Hopper painting, which in turn helped inspire the design of the Bates house in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho.'

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

This museum-within-a-museum pays tribute to "The World's Most Experienced Airline."

This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.

A cemetery that holds graves for the forgotten children of a burned orphanage.

One man’s obsessive, 30-plus-year quest is behind the pies at this spot on the Lower East Side.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

A deteriorating 1990s Girl Scout camp in a beautiful lush park on Lake Ontario.

This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground

A collection of playbills, photographs, and other memorabilia from the Brooklyn Academy of Music.