This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.

Pick up a kebab and a credenza at this unique combination furniture store and café.

Fossilized sea bottom and lime quarry.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

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

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

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

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

In Cold Spring, New York, a shrine containing Godzilla and an assortment of plastic dinosaurs stands dedicated to a teenager who died in a car accident in 1996.

The remains of what was once the world's steepest passenger funicular.

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

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

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

This enormous abandoned factory is now a makeshift graffiti gallery.

This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground

The graphite created here was used in the manufacturing of pencils.

This magnificent Japanese garden provides a moment of Zen in rural Vermont.

An artist sees trees as a medium for sculpture.

A few stone foundations and an old graveyard are all that is left of this once thriving settlement in the wilds of Connecticut.

This mysterious artificial cave has long puzzled New Englanders.

Former private property that was hidden up a trail in the woods with thousands of bright yellow daffodils.

A plaque marks the spot on the bridge where one of the first elephants in the U.S., Little Bet, was gunned down.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

Stumps of an Ice Age forest, visible only at low tide.