The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

The graveyard holds the remains of Irish immigrants who arrived in Queens after fleeing the Great Famine.

Teddy Roosevelt’s famous “midnight ride to the presidency" started at this small lake high up in the Adirondacks.

The final resting place of Harriet Tubman and other famous historical figures.

The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.

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

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

These mouldering mansion ruins remember a time when the Catskills were nothing but luxury.

World's largest herd of white deer populate a former U.S. Army depot.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

A mysterious echo seems to defy the laws of acoustics.

This sandstone gorge in New York State's Adirondack Mountains is home to waterfalls, flumes, and more.

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

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

Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.