It wouldn't be long after purchasing this farm, Brown would lead his siege on Harper's Ferry.

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.

A 13,000-year-old mastodon skeleton was found during the construction of a 19th-century New York mill.

A man used his Civil War-era fortune to build this sanctuary in memory of his wife.

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

Believe It or Not, Ripley once called this chiseled mountainside “New York’s Mount Rushmore”.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

World Trade Center memorial likened to a woman's sexual organ.

The boulder on which Alexander Hamilton laid his head as he died can still be visited on the New Jersey coast.

This unassuming retro burger joint was billed as “diner of the future” at the 1939 World's Fair.

This rocky spread has been squeezed up directly from the bowels of the earth.

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

An exhibition devoted to the life (and posthumous taxidermy form) of the last known representative of the Pinta Island Tortoises.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

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

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

This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.

Take a trip back to the 1950s and the heyday of the road trip along Historic Route 20.

This sprawling taxidermy collection celebrates the art and history of sport hunting.

An upstate New York garage advertises its services by literally putting the automobile above all else.

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

A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.

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

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.