The remnants of a luxurious resort that saw its peak in the 1970s and 1980s has been abandoned since 2009, leaving behind the wreckage of both the hotel and a beautiful ice skating rink.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

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

“Wagon Jobber" turned smokehouse magnate's family-owned business is still going strong 100 years later.

This family-owned bakery is one of the last places in Brooklyn to sell the Nation of Islam–inspired bean pie.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

A commemorative plaque hides a door that leads down to the New York Public Library's underground book bunker.

The poet's been ambling through these New York woods since 1940.

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

This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.

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

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

This Central New York ghost town was once a prosperous railroad community.

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

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

An abandoned horticulture institute gloomily presides over rows of derelict and vine-wrought greenhouses.

A beautiful, historic location open to the public.

Because holiday cheer is at its finest when it includes eerie mannequins, right?

Every year model trains zip through a miniature New York City that's now 150 landmarks strong.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

Astonishing collection of helmets, scientific instruments, and medical models.

This sound-art installation features songs composed using only the Mid-Hudson Bridge as an instrument.

The dairy farm in upstate New York where nearly half a million people gathered for three days of peace and music in 1969.