Mansion and shopping center used in the 1975 film "The Stepford Wives."

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

A peaceful international sculpture garden in upstate New York.

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

Haunted Victorian house that inspired a legendary "Ghostbusters" court ruling.

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

A living antique aviation museum in the historic town of Red Hook, New York.

Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.

Adherence to strict Jewish laws is required to enter this ultra-conservative New York village.

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

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

This forlorn park is the result of a failed investment turned tax dodge.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

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

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

This abandoned ironworks was once the most important military supplier in America.

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

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

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

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

The lovely lake that was naturally dammed, then naturally destroyed, then unnaturally saved.

Submerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lake.