Pluto is still considered a planet in Ithaca, New York.

Oldest existing wire suspension bridge in the United States.

Ruins of a once-prized railroad station in New York.

Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

Glacial erratic or man-made dolmen? It probably wasn't druids.

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

Spies, love letters, and ghost stories have all left their mark on this home-cum-museum.

The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.

Test your business savvy and play the market for cocktails at this stock exchange-inspired watering hole.

The summit Roosevelt conquered before he descended to become The Chief.

Eclectic architecture in the woods of New York.

The loneliest island in New York.

Home on the Hillside, and home of the first breakfast cereal.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

The former estate of the Guggenheims, part of the opulent Gold Coast that inspired the Great Gatsby.

An unassuming island in the middle of the Hudson that hosts campers, including Aleister Crowley.

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

A beautiful final resting place with some surprising residents.

The private island of Yale's elite Skull & Bones society is kind of a dump.

An isolated beacon with a history of grisly murder and a view of some of literature's greatest inspirations.