If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

Some of the best Persian food in New York comes from the front window of an unassuming pizza shop.

Eight whimsical acres of metal art.

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

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

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

The once abandoned ruins of a Victorian beachside amusement park are now back in working order.

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

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.

This stunning Connecticut mansion is actually just a one-room-deep hoax.

An abandoned horticulture institute gloomily presides over rows of derelict and vine-wrought greenhouses.

These etchings reveal the history of a long-gone quarantine site.

The world's largest public collection of PEZ memorabilia.

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

This whimsically unique butterfly farm focuses solely on creating habitats for the gentle insects.

An eccentric playboy's astounding natural history collection.

A Yale University president wears full samurai garb in one of America’s oldest cemeteries.

It was founded by Ralph Nader to educate the public about an often-maligned area of law.

The "possessed" house that inspired "The Haunting in Connecticut" book and movie.

The remains of the furnace and iron works that produced the massive Hudson River Chain still stand in the woods of New York.