Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

Around 100 sculptures from artists all over the world decorate the hiking trails surrounding this locale.

An unassuming island in the middle of the Hudson that hosts campers, including Aleister Crowley.

Believe It or Not, Ripley once called this chiseled mountainside “New York’s Mount Rushmore”.

Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.

Risk arrest while partying to fund art.

A community theatre in Brooklyn that brings Country to New York and New York to Country.

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

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.

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.

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

For over 80 years, Mayan ruins stood proudly in a most unlikely location.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

This natural rock "church" might not be a proper chapel but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.

This tiny church near Sleepy Hollow contains Henri Matisse's last work, a rose window, and nine windows by Marc Chagall.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.