A historic recreation of the golden age of the Erie Canal, abandoned for some time, slowly being restored.

A 10-foot-tall concrete Alley Oop statue left over from World War II now stands on the side of the road.

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

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

Over 50 whirling pools left behind from the glacial age.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

Cryptid lake monster honored with its own monument.

A CT scan revealed the identity of this 3,000-year-old mummy that everyone erroneously thought was female.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

Comprehensive gaming collection of over 30,000 electronic games and consoles.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

This Central New York ghost town was once a prosperous railroad community.

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

Dozens of houses in the Adirondack Mountains are reminders of a literal "cottage industry" to cure people of a deadly disease.

Outside this souvenir shop is a statue of Bigfoot composed of volcanic ash, and plenty more to see inside.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

A rugged lava field dotted with molds of the ancient pines that were growing when the volcano erupted.

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.