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Benji Sills
- Jul 23, 2020
- 4 min
Sandy Hook’s Abandoned Military Bases
Continuing our newfound fascination with abandoned places, Paige and I made the trek out to the seaside preserve of Sandy Hook. Despite what we eventually discovered hidden crumbling away on the beach, Sandy Hook did not initially give any indication of being abandoned. As we crossed the bridge over to the narrow peninsula, the sky became blotted out by a parade of parachutes. Dozens of people were paragliding just off the shore, all looking like they’d desperately lost contr
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Benji Sills
- Jun 2, 2020
- 3 min
Tomb of Secrets - New York's Most Mysterious Tomb
Green-Wood Cemetery is one of New York’s oldest attractions - in just shy of 200 years it has accumulated over 600,000 graves. Among these are a pyramid mausoleum, a hefty bear sculpture placidly straddling a gravestone and a tombstone shaped like a cookbook with an actual cookie recipe inscribed. Yet the quirkiest tomb of the lot features a unique twist: there’s nobody buried below. Paige and I spent a full day wandering the grounds of Green-Wood Cemetery, checking off the m
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Benji Sills
- Apr 24, 2020
- 2 min
Little Red Lighthouse
To learn more about this location and other hidden gems in NYC, check out our first travel video. The dense little island of Manhattan is packed with an almost frightening array of secrets - sometimes the best hidden gems may only be a few streets apart and you’ll still completely miss them. That’s what happened when Paige and I ventured north up the west side looking for the Sisyphus Stones, bizarre waterfront rock piles that seem to ignore basic gravity (read about that adv
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