Ruins of a once-prized railroad station in New York.

An old dining hall now serves up ghost stories for lusty locals.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

Not even a series of devastating fires could keep this odd castle in upstate New York from bouncing back.

This abandoned cemetery is crumbling into ruin, exposing the artifacts and bodies buried there.

A crumbling staircase in upper Manhattan is all that remains of one of the most important sites in sports history.

Manhattan and the Bronx have been playing tug-of-war over this former island neighborhood for more than a century.

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

The soulless eyes of 82 bronze children stare on forever in remembrance of a horrifying World War II massacre.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

Hidden within a Netherlands crater is a stone bed that lets those who lie in it see the sky as a curved surface.

This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

This gruesome biblical parade celebrates the one day a year that a bit of Jesus' blood turns to liquid.