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

A beautifully designed asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center with a ghost story or two.

This abandoned ironworks was once the most important military supplier in America.

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

These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.

A working monastery hidden away in Brooklyn once abutted the location of a former inebriate's home.

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

The seat of Buffalo government is a gorgeous Art Deco palace.

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

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

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

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

This isolated community does not want you to visit.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

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

The gravestone of the suffragist leader attracted extra visitors during the 2016 election.

The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.

More than 300,000 historical artifacts from the famous music venue, from Duke Ellington's handwritten score to The Beatles' booking slip.

One of the largest festivals of flowers in North America takes place, appropriately, in the Flower City.

The Binghamton area is home to six of the last remaining hand-carved vintage carousels.

A perfect replica of the beloved show's first set.

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

An unassuming nature trail winds through dozens of tiny houses built for the wee people.

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