The eccentric mansion of one the most popular horror authors of modern times.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

Here be dragons.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

A former poultry store that looks like a giant duck and is one of the "seven wonders" of Long Island.

Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.

A steam trawler with a whiskey-soaked history driven ashore in 1960 resides rusty but still standing on the shoreline.

The oldest pub in Ireland may also be the oldest surviving bar in the entire world.

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

The largest known open fault in the United States is basically a giant natural refrigerator.

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

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

A historic lighthouse steeped in rumors of ghost and pirate stories.

Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.