This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground

A quarter-scale locomotive wonderland built by one man and his family.

A Christian-themed amusement park and complex rocked by scandals.

A man's home is his castle.

The birthplace of America's favorite fruit-flavored mystery dessert.

Pluto is still considered a planet in Ithaca, New York.

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

These expertly crafted, scientifically accurate glass sea creatures were once an international phenomenon.

A six-story treehouse offers spectacular views of New York's Finger Lakes region.

This museum pays homage to a device that precipitated a watershed moment in Finger Lakes food production.

The press that first printed the Book of Mormon.

A reproduction of a giant humanoid "fossil," a hoax buried locally for construction crews to find and gain national attention.

World's largest herd of white deer populate a former U.S. Army depot.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

This oversize piece of novelty cookware once cooked the largest pancake in the world.

A field in which God and his son Jesus purportedly appeared to a young farm boy named Joseph Smith.

Golden plates containing what would become the Book of Mormon were believed to be buried on this New York hillside.

An unassuming nature trail winds through dozens of tiny houses built for the wee people.

Eclectic architecture in the woods of New York.

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

The largest guitar store in the world has been visited by some of music's all-time greats passing through upstate New York.

The floor-to-ceiling collection in an old factory is a unique alternative to stuffy galleries.

The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.

A room hidden behind a swinging shelf in the children's section.