Failed state-supported institution meant to rehabilitate students with intellectual disabilities.

In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.

Once a dumping spot, now a park with a kayak launch.

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

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

At this small shop off a dirt road in the forest, the specialty is eel the owner caught and smoked himself.

The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.

This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

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

This path is named for a mythical half-boar, half-deer creature that once roamed the Green Mountains.

A simple Colonial home with a past haunted by death and madness.

This cavernous abandoned marble mine is popular with ice skaters in the winter.

This mysterious artificial cave has long puzzled New Englanders.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

The ghost town that was one of New Hampshire's first settlements now exists as a park detailing its history.

Nature and religion are reunited at this unconventional church in the forest.

Visit the birthplace of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, poet and author of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.'

Since 1985, this Victorian home has operated as a museum filled top to bottom with American-made glassware.

Generations of rockhounds got their start at this beloved, historic mine.