Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

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

New York's oldest magic store.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

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

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

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

This once luxurious Catskills resort is now a haunting ruin.

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

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

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

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

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

An unassuming island in the middle of the Hudson that hosts campers, including Aleister Crowley.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

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

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

Discovered by cows, these upstate New York show caves are presented with a healthy dose of psychedelic folk art.

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.

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

A peaceful international sculpture garden in upstate New York.