A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

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

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.

A former connection to City Island, it has been abandoned since the 1930s.

A mysterious, abandoned building rotting on the Brooklyn waterfront.

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

A fictional town that was briefly brought to life before fading once again out of existence.

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

This semi-spooky remnant of an abandoned hotel provides fantastic views.

These mouldering mansion ruins remember a time when the Catskills were nothing but luxury.

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

An unassuming stone building houses New York City's oldest seismic station almost 30 feet below the Bronx.

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

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

This once-grand marvel of engineering is now 41 miles of scenic hiking trail.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.

These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.