This throwback amusement park is home to rides and unique storybook figures from the past.

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

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

The lost town of Neversink, sunk by New York City.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

A distillery built on (and above!) mobster Dutch Schultz's Prohibition-era underground moonshine business.

The life of one of FDR's possible mistresses is preserved in her palatial Hudson Valley mansion.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

For over 80 years, Mayan ruins stood proudly in a most unlikely location.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

A gigantic 10-foot tall stone man.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

A sewing machine tycoon built this miniature castle for the people and to beautify a lakeshore.

The former home of a disgraced local priest now hosts a mysterious secret supper club.

An enormous cat made of recycled wood scraps.

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

This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.

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

At this farm in upstate New York, the former president plotted his reelection campaign.

This giant monument of the RCA mascot is a beloved fixture in Albany, New York.

A CT scan revealed the identity of this 3,000-year-old mummy that everyone erroneously thought was female.

The first American home of the isolated, egalitarian religion has a trove of Shaker architecture and artifacts.

The small burial plot is located in a mall parking lot.