Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

Final resting place of Typhoid Mary.

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

This abandoned caretaker's apartment is one of 13 left in the New York Public Library system.

Hidden inside one of the world's most well-visited zoos is a secret plaque promising eternal life.

Along the Palisades skyline are the ruins of a large mansion built in 1911 and demolished in the 1930s.

This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.

The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.

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

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

This fancifully decorated Victorian home in New York’s Hudson Valley is the only known fully domed octagonal residence in the United States.

This statue commemorates the importance of hat manufacturing to Danbury, once known as the "Hat City of the World."

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

Visit the grave of America's most prominent paranormal investigators and self-proclaimed demonologists.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world's most famous paranormal investigators.

One of America's oldest private membership libraries was long one of New Haven's best kept secrets.

The "possessed" house that inspired "The Haunting in Connecticut" book and movie.

Connecticut grave of the woman responsible for the Winchester Mystery House in California.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

This petite park lets visitors see and touch examples of fossilized dinosaur tracks.