This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

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

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.

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

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

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

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

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

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

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.

A museum collection honoring the long history of the FDNY is held in a disused Manhattan fire house.

Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."