A large camera obscura, constructed entirely from digitally fabricated components.

A beautifully designed asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center with a ghost story or two.

A winding, cliffside stretch of road overlooking the Delaware River.

Pluto is still considered a planet in Ithaca, New York.

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

The home, museum, and death site of Kodak's influential founder.

A mysterious echo seems to defy the laws of acoustics.

This derelict building used to house infirm Freemasons, their widows, and orphans.

This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.

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

Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

The life of one of FDR's possible mistresses is preserved in her palatial Hudson Valley mansion.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

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

An eccentric playboy's astounding natural history collection.

A deteriorating 1990s Girl Scout camp in a beautiful lush park on Lake Ontario.

These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

A collection of unique outdoor sculptures surounded by the beauty of nature.

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

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

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

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