This whimsically unique butterfly farm focuses solely on creating habitats for the gentle insects.

Along a busy beachfront strip you may hear Frank Sinatra singing from one boardwalk home.

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

This once luxurious Catskills resort is now a haunting ruin.

A statue commemorating a 16-year old girl's nighttime ride to raise a militia against attacking British troops.

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

A millionaire's abandoned swimming pool from the gilded age of one of America's most distinguished families.

An eccentric playboy's astounding natural history collection.

These mouldering mansion ruins remember a time when the Catskills were nothing but luxury.

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

An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.

Forgotten under the construction of a new urban roadway is a small, abandoned part of town.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

A collaborative art project that transformed a neighborhood in NYC's Queens.

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

Peek through the gates at this oasis from the city, full of Old English charm.

Some of New York's best tacos can be found in the back of an unassuming bodega in Queens.

The loneliest island in New York.

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

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

This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.