A rusted blade sticks out from the trunk of this tree, left as a memorial to a young man who left to fight in the Civil War but never returned home.

This small road tunnel is the only place where you can cross beneath the Erie Canal.

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

A field in which God and his son Jesus purportedly appeared to a young farm boy named Joseph Smith.

Alexander Milliner, a favorite of General Washington, is interred at Mt. Hope Cemetery along with 80 other Revolutionary War veterans.

A deteriorating 1990s Girl Scout camp in a beautiful lush park on Lake Ontario.

This remote Scottish island has the only round church in the nation.

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

The loneliest island in New York.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

The fanciest public restroom in New York City boasts fresh flowers, art, and a classical music soundtrack.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

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

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

This ruined fort hidden at the top of Central Park can't seem to keep from losing its historical plaques.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

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