The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

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

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

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

A living antique aviation museum in the historic town of Red Hook, New York.

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.

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

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

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

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.

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

This abandoned ironworks was once the most important military supplier in America.

This high-perched pachyderm marks the memory of not one, but two elephants gunned down in small New England towns.

The largest Buddha statue in the Western Hemisphere is just 50 miles north of NYC.