The life of one of FDR's possible mistresses is preserved in her palatial Hudson Valley mansion.

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

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

The birthplace of America's favorite fruit-flavored mystery dessert.

Behind a grungy bodega facade, a Poblano family serves rich, home-cooked meals.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

This tiny church near Sleepy Hollow contains Henri Matisse's last work, a rose window, and nine windows by Marc Chagall.

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

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

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

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

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.

An abandoned dollhouse factory.

A peaceful international sculpture garden in upstate New York.

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

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

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

The abandoned ruins of America's first private zoo are open for exploration in the Catskills.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

An enormous cat made of recycled wood scraps.

A small Second Empire-style building is one of only seven remaining lighthouses on the Hudson River.