Snack on a partially gestated duck egg.

Amazing views of Long Island Sound can be seen from this mountaintop tower.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

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

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

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

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

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

The remains of the furnace and iron works that produced the massive Hudson River Chain still stand in the woods of New York.

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

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

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

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

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

This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.

This whimsically unique butterfly farm focuses solely on creating habitats for the gentle insects.

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

A once-booming railroad left abandoned next to the Quinnipiac River marshes now intersects with a hiking trail.

This classic steam-powered train takes tourists on a nostalgic trip around the Connecticut River Valley.

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

This strangely amalgamated museum explores the history of the Timex clock company as well as archaeology.

An abandoned 146-acre summer resort slowly being reclaimed by nature.