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

The dairy farm in upstate New York where nearly half a million people gathered for three days of peace and music in 1969.

This Central New York ghost town was once a prosperous railroad community.

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

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

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

An actual piece of the Moon, brought down to Earth by Apollo 15.

This relic of 19th-century infrastructure is one of the few remaining coal gas storage tanks in the U.S.

This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.

This statue commemorates the meeting of the most influential minds of the women’s rights movement.

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

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

This abandoned neighborhood is now a park filled with beautiful trees, wildflowers, and hints of its past.

More than 200 unconventional musical instruments that anyone can play.

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.

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

The poet's been ambling through these New York woods since 1940.

A collection of the best toys ever made, The National Toy Hall of Fame is filled with kids, fun, and for some reason, a bird preserve.

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

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

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

This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.

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

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