Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.

"Where the ducks walk on fish."

An occult-y, historic hotel with the World's Largest Ouija board on the roof.

Memorializing an American tragedy of massive proportions.

Steepest flood safety railway in the entire world.

Memorial built in 1922 in remembrance of WWI casualties.

A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.

The final resting place of a famous 19th-century murder victim whose identity is still a mystery.

Failed state-supported institution meant to rehabilitate students with intellectual disabilities.

The highest natural point in New York City and all of the Atlantic coastal plain.

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

The pioneering photographer's prints are immortalized inside her childhood home.

Staten Island's original central park is the former home of the city water supply as well as thousands of immigrant graves.

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.

Devotional offerings and pleas for intercession are left at this Depression-era shrine inside a nature preserve.

Eccentric stone cairns built on a public New York City beach.

The final resting place of some of Staten Island's earliest settlers and their descendants.

Final resting place of two dozen New York City harbor ships.

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

During the American Revolution, this mansion hosted failed peace talks between the British and Americans.

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

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