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Fort Hancock’s Officers’ Row is a stretch of eighteen abandoned brick mansions lining Sandy Hook Bay in New Jersey, built in the 1890s for Army officers and left to decay after the fort closed in 1974. You can walk or bike right past their sagging porches today, free of charge, inside Gateway National Recreation Area…
The Hindenburg crash site sits on an active military runway in Lakehurst, New Jersey, marked by a chain-outlined concrete pad shaped like the airship itself. You can’t just drive up and see it — the only way in is through a free, appointment-only tour run by the Navy Lakehurst Historical Society, and you need to…
If you’ve walked the boardwalk in Asbury Park, you’ve seen Tillie: that huge, grinning, slightly unsettling face that shows up on t-shirts, coffee mugs, and the side of the Wonder Bar. But here’s the part almost nobody tells you until you go looking for it — the Tillie you can photograph today isn’t the original….
If you walk to the end of Sunset Boulevard in Cape May Point and look out at the Delaware Bay, you’ll see something that looks like a broken piece of a parking garage sitting in the surf. That’s the SS Atlantus, a World War I cargo ship built entirely out of concrete, and it has…
The Deserted Village of Feltville is a cluster of abandoned 19th-century cottages, a church, and a carriage barn sitting deep inside the Watchung Reservation in Union County, New Jersey. It’s officially known as the Feltville Historic District, and despite the spooky nickname, it’s a real, walkable, publicly accessible site with a documented history stretching back…
The Palace of Depression is a hand-built, junk-covered castle in Vineland, New Jersey, originally constructed in 1929-1932 by a self-proclaimed former Alaska gold miner named George Daynor. The original was torn down decades ago, but volunteers have spent more than 25 years rebuilding it on the same swampy lot, and you can still visit the…