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

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

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

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

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

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic's missed arrival.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

New York's oldest magic store.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

One of the first commercially successful anthracite-powered iron-making operations in North America.

This museum focuses on the history and culture of the German settlers in Pennsylvania.

An American industrialist hoped this nature preserve could help save the North American bison.

The only museum in the Western Pennsylvania region that focuses on Asian art and Meissen porcelain.

Rocky outcrops containing overhangs, caves, fissures, clefts, and alcoves that invite exploration and scrambling.

This vintage short line in Amish country runs passenger steam train excursions and still hauls freight.

Come for the history lesson, stay for the mule-pulled boat rides.

Welcome to the home of the world's largest typewriter company.

A monument to an Irish secret society thought to be responsible for a string of violent attacks in Pennsylvania coal mines.

The train collection of an eccentric New England seafood mogul is now a National Historical Site.

A converted hangar displays dozens of helicopters, from a famous 1943 rescue chopper to several autogyros.

A museum dedicated to the history of electric interurban transit near the home of the first electric trolley system in the United States.