A historic recreation of the golden age of the Erie Canal, abandoned for some time, slowly being restored.

Hundreds of numbered stakes hidden in the woods mark the graves of the lost souls of a nearby asylum.

The largest glacial erratic boulder on Cape Cod.

A 19th-century smallpox cemetery is being reclaimed by scrub forest and sand dunes.

The ceiling of this vintage movie palace is covered in fantastic Art Deco murals.

A quaint museum nestled in a former hub of Irish moss harvesting.

Once a kitschy symbol for a gift shop, this 38-foot seahorse is now a staple roadside attraction.

Haunted boulder in a front yard with a witch painted on it.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.

Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.

These Benedictine nuns have been making artisanal cheeses since before it was cool.

A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruous in rural Vermont.

A jewel of early electric boosterism once again charms Connecticut's historic "Hat City."

A 19th century hat factory still stands as a crumbling ruin in upstate New York.

This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.

The remains of what was once the world's steepest passenger funicular.

The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

The great American road trip, but smaller.

Antique gaffe kept in the basement of a small Vermont natural history museum.

A living antique aviation museum in the historic town of Red Hook, New York.