The "last holdout of the Confederacy” actually sat at the edge of the Canadian border.

The birthplace of America's favorite fruit-flavored mystery dessert.

The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.

Home on the Hillside, and home of the first breakfast cereal.

A planned settlement in Pennsylvania once housed the aristocratic refugees of the French Revolution.

In the mid-19th century, an eight-sided house was the latest fad.

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

One of the oldest surviving bars in the United States, located at the site of the last skirmish of the American Revolution.

Thomas Edison's home and final resting place also boasts an impressive garage, where some of the earliest electric cars are on display.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

Featuring the the longest lift span of any vertical-lift bridge in the world.

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

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

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

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

A remote hill on a stretch of country road where the laws of physics are defied... or so it seems.

A former barn converted into a massive train diorama.

Home to the world's largest refracting telescope and the birthplace of modern astrophysics.

This once sprawling resort now sits abandoned, filled with graffiti and vibrant colors from an era long passed.

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

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

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

This once luxurious Catskills resort is now a haunting ruin.