Antique skeletons and taxidermy creatures were found crammed in a university closet.

Abandoned rock quarry now a haven for mountain bikers and hikers.

A bar, burger joint, and arcade housed in a late 19th-century church building.

Teddy Roosevelt’s famous “midnight ride to the presidency" started at this small lake high up in the Adirondacks.

This island castle contains enough secret passageways to support a season of Scooby-Doo episodes.

This peaceful gem in upstate New York was chosen as the future home of the 14th Dalai Lama's Library and Museum.

This oversize piece of novelty cookware once cooked the largest pancake in the world.

Now the final resting place of prominent artists and musicians, it was originally founded to separate the rich from the poor in death.

The Binghamton area is home to six of the last remaining hand-carved vintage carousels.

This isolated community does not want you to visit.

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

Homemade rockets, dinosaurs, and robots make this New York small business much more than a furniture store.

An unassuming island in the middle of the Hudson that hosts campers, including Aleister Crowley.

This Buffalo museum hides an Art Deco gas station designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

This two-room factory has been cranking out the musical signifier of zaniness for a century.

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

A beautiful final resting place with some surprising residents.

Believe It or Not, Ripley once called this chiseled mountainside “New York’s Mount Rushmore”.

Six peaceful acres in a residential neighborhood dedicated to art and peace.

Launch vegetables using oversized slingshots at this Fingerlakes winery's roadside attraction.

Secluded amid upstate New York’s Adirondack Mountains lies this subterranean emblem of a nation on the brink of nuclear war. And it's for sale.

The schoolhouse where Jesse Merwin, the inspiration for the "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" character, once taught.

A beautiful multicolored mound formed by the mineral deposits of the Orenda Spring.

This forlorn park is the result of a failed investment turned tax dodge.