The highest point in New Jersey is marked by a massive, if simply named, obelisk.

Memorial to the 137 lives lost on a ship fire, the whole hulk of which washed up on the Asbury Park shore.

This evocative New Jersey statue memoralizes the Polish victims of a Soviet massacre.

These unassuming lighthouses have seen the first reading of the Pledge of Allegiance, the first wireless transmission, and more than one mystery.

On the Hudson resides one of the largest clocks in the world.

Rusting away on the edge of New Jersey are the remains of a Cold War missile launch site.

A unusual sanctuary for abused and exotic animals in South Jersey.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

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

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