A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

The final resting place of Harriet Tubman and other famous historical figures.

A deteriorating 1990s Girl Scout camp in a beautiful lush park on Lake Ontario.

A carriage house converted into what resembles an 11th-century English manor house

A Frankenstein blend of science and art allows one tree to produce 40 different types of stone fruit.

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.

The quarry was abandoned over 100 years ago, after a massive ammunition explosion ended in tragedy.

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.

The shared home of a utopian commune that practiced "free love" a century before the hippies.

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

A mummy and sarcophagus are part of the many wonders in this library's collection.

A gigantic 10-foot tall stone man.

A sewing machine tycoon built this miniature castle for the people and to beautify a lakeshore.

Take a trip back to the 1950s and the heyday of the road trip along Historic Route 20.

This one-man homegrown eatery may be the world's most exclusive restaurant with its five-year waiting list.

This stave church nestled in the Catskills was built in the 1960s by a community of Ukrainian immigrants and refugees.

This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.

Believe It or Not, Ripley once called this chiseled mountainside “New York’s Mount Rushmore”.