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

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

The largest open-pit gold mine in Canada.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

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

This outpost of America's most popular fast-food restaurant is housed inside a palatial mansion.

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.

Not even a series of devastating fires could keep this odd castle in upstate New York from bouncing back.

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

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

Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

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

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

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.