This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

The loneliest island in New York.

Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

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

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

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

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.

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.

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

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

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

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

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

This grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.