The great American road trip, but smaller.

This throwback amusement park is home to rides and unique storybook figures from the past.

This lovely little pond is named after the hundreds of soldiers' corpses that were rolled into the waters during the French-Indian War.

The first evidence of some of the Earth's earliest life was found in this fossilized undersea grotto.

Two mermen, eternally spitting into each other's mouths.

A beautiful multicolored mound formed by the mineral deposits of the Orenda Spring.

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

An Adirondacks museum housed in the former studio of Marcella Sembrich, the 19th century opera star most famous for her role of Mimi in "La Boheme."

A mysterious echo seems to defy the laws of acoustics.

All that remains of the once-booming chain is a single orange-roofed restaurant.

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

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

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

Adherence to strict Jewish laws is required to enter this ultra-conservative New York village.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

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

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

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

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

Whimsical artist house in the New Jersey woods.

Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.

Tucked behind New Jersey's abandoned Gingerbread Castle lie the eerie ruins of a once-flourishing paper mill.

The first neighborhood to implement the Garden City model in its suburban planning.

This crumbling little graveyard was saved from the undergrowth by concerned veterans.