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

Not even a series of devastating fires could keep this odd castle in upstate New York from bouncing back.

Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.

Discover the taste of mold.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

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

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.

A staggering collection of photographs depicting medical, social, and historical change.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

A six-story treehouse offers spectacular views of New York's Finger Lakes region.

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

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

The library of every book lover's dreams.

A no-frills cinephile haven known for showing offbeat, underseen films.

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

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

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

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