A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

On the second floor of a small town library is an homage to angling and memorial to a great local fisherman.

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

Now the final resting place of prominent artists and musicians, it was originally founded to separate the rich from the poor in death.

A distillery built on (and above!) mobster Dutch Schultz's Prohibition-era underground moonshine business.

This sprawling woodland estate was the brainchild of iconic American industrial designer Russel Wright.

A living antique aviation museum in the historic town of Red Hook, New York.

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

The largest Buddha statue in the Western Hemisphere is just 50 miles north of NYC.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

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

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

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

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

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

The largest known open fault in the United States is basically a giant natural refrigerator.

The second largest maple syrup producer in the U.S. runs a high-tech operation.

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

An enormous cat made of recycled wood scraps.

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

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

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

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.