This stone tower in a small town's graveyard looks as though it would be more at home in a fairy tale.

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

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

Funded entirely by volunteers and donors this military memorial features a tank with a comedy line on its barrel.

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

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

Reforestation in action is the main attraction in this abandoned quarry.

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

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

This massive boulder is inscribed with the story of a sensational hostage negotiation dating back to Colonial times.

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

A 19th century hat factory still stands as a crumbling ruin in upstate New York.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

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

The remains of what was once the world's steepest passenger funicular.

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.

The world's largest public collection of PEZ memorabilia.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.