This New York estate was designed to resemble a medieval Scottish castle.

Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

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

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

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

Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

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

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Western New York's largest independent bookstore doubles as a historical repository of all things Niagara Falls.

Quite possibly the last cross all humans will ever see.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

An old dining hall now serves up ghost stories for lusty locals.

An antique cemetery in New York, this land is home to any number of famed corpses.