This restored house is like a time capsule of the president's unconventional inauguration.

The seat of Buffalo government is a gorgeous Art Deco palace.

What appears to be an act of fruit vandalism is actually a cultural statement.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

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

This dilapidated castle-like structure overlooks the Hudson River at one of its widest points and was once home to nuns.

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

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

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

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

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

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

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

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

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

The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.

This abandoned cemetery is crumbling into ruin, exposing the artifacts and bodies buried there.

This petite park lets visitors see and touch examples of fossilized dinosaur tracks.

New London, Connecticut still holds a grudge against its hometown son who turned traitor and burned the city.

This "thrice-cursed" island is allegedly home to Captain Kidd's lost treasure.

The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.

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

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

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