Manhattan's Thirteenth Avenue was made on landfill then deliberately destroyed — apart from one small, obscure block.

Known as the "Forgotten City" it was home to industry, riots, artists, squatters, and to one of the largest single disaster fires in New York City.

One of the largest festivals of flowers in North America takes place, appropriately, in the Flower City.

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

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.

The seat of Buffalo government is a gorgeous Art Deco palace.

The greatest real estate coup of all time.

Brooklyn vintners creating world-class wine in a city not known for its vineyards.

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

This sprawling woodland estate was the brainchild of iconic American industrial designer Russel Wright.

The quarry was abandoned over 100 years ago, after a massive ammunition explosion ended in tragedy.

One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.

This New York estate was designed to resemble a medieval Scottish castle.

Head past the aisles of tropical fruit and imported candy at this bodega to discover a hidden, weekends-only taco stand.

The first "Hall of Fame" in America was designed by legendary Gilded Age architect Stanford White for what was then the NYU uptown campus.

This unique crypt designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his longtime friend was not completed in either man's lifetime.

A formerly abandoned mental institute, now back in business.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

Buffalo's abandoned concrete grain elevators are getting a second life.

An isolated beacon with a history of grisly murder and a view of some of literature's greatest inspirations.

A mysterious, abandoned building rotting on the Brooklyn waterfront.

This throwback amusement park is home to rides and unique storybook figures from the past.

A millionaire's abandoned swimming pool from the gilded age of one of America's most distinguished families.

An abandoned tuberculosis hospital moulders on into an uncertain future.