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

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

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

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

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

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

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

Hear the tales of New York's most notorious criminals.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.

The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

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

Golden plates containing what would become the Book of Mormon were believed to be buried on this New York hillside.

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

Alexander Milliner, a favorite of General Washington, is interred at Mt. Hope Cemetery along with 80 other Revolutionary War veterans.

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

An antique cemetery in New York, this land is home to any number of famed corpses.

An old dining hall now serves up ghost stories for lusty locals.

The home, museum, and death site of Kodak's influential founder.

Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.