"Call for the doctor, call for the nurse... Vote!! said the lady with the alligator purse."

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

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

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

This cavernous abandoned marble mine is popular with ice skaters in the winter.

An abandoned 19th century quarry in the middle of the woods, remade by unnamed wanderers into a massive series of rock thrones.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

This sprawling 18th-century cemetery features unique and beautiful gravestones, including one shaped like a tree.

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

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

Not even a series of devastating fires could keep this odd castle in upstate New York from bouncing back.

Fossilized sea bottom and lime quarry.

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

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

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

Pick up all of the cosmic knick-knacks under the sun or take a creative writing course, all offered in this novelty storefront.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

A museum dedicated to man's boldest venture.

Unusual books about food and drink abound in this 19th-century New York townhouse.