"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

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

A rock maze opens up to a panoramic viewpoint at an abandoned mine full of ghost stories.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

This oversize piece of novelty cookware once cooked the largest pancake in the world.

A six-story treehouse offers spectacular views of New York's Finger Lakes region.

This lush forest valley was once mined for lumber to the extent that it was once nicknamed "The Pennsylvania Desert."

Pluto is still considered a planet in Ithaca, New York.

A quaint village in Western New York named after Alexander Hamilton's beloved sister-in-law.