This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

Eclectic architecture in the woods of New York.

See wolves, coyotes, and arctic foxes in a natural environment smack in the middle of New York State.

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.

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

This locally-famous crevasse in New York State is icy all year round.

Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

This outpost of America's most popular fast-food restaurant is housed inside a palatial mansion.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

A six-story treehouse offers spectacular views of New York's Finger Lakes region.

The highest point on the island known for buildings that touch the sky.

An abandoned 19th century quarry in the middle of the woods, remade by unnamed wanderers into a massive series of rock thrones.

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

The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.

Three acres of mythology-inspired sculptures are visible from the highway.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

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

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

This natural rock "church" might not be a proper chapel but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

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

An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.

This Central New York ghost town was once a prosperous railroad community.

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.