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

Reforestation in action is the main attraction in this abandoned quarry.

This forgotten graveyard in rural New York State once served a pioneering hospital.

This sandstone gorge in New York State's Adirondack Mountains is home to waterfalls, flumes, and more.

All that remains of a magnate's dream home is a historic gate and an abandoned public pool.

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

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

Teddy Roosevelt’s famous “midnight ride to the presidency" started at this small lake high up in the Adirondacks.

This statue commemorates the meeting of the most influential minds of the women’s rights movement.

This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground

An abandoned dollhouse factory.

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

Tucked away on the second floor of a small town library is one of the great private Victorian taxidermy collections looking today very much like it did in 1909.

The "last holdout of the Confederacy” actually sat at the edge of the Canadian border.

Golden plates containing what would become the Book of Mormon were believed to be buried on this New York hillside.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

Three gardens with toilets and urinals filled with bright flowers started as a protest against zoning rules.

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

A peaceful international sculpture garden in upstate New York.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

A memorial to the 1913 tragedy that helped protect the workers of the future.

A mysterious echo seems to defy the laws of acoustics.

Fossilized sea bottom and lime quarry.

A gazebo that inspired the fifth episode of the "Twilight Zone" still stands in the creator's hometown