Schenectady, New York
Vedder Family Cemetery
The small burial plot is located in a mall parking lot.
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Schenectady, New York
The small burial plot is located in a mall parking lot.
Fallsburg, New York
This once sprawling resort now sits abandoned, filled with graffiti and vibrant colors from an era long passed.
Saugerties, New York
One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.
Kingston, New York
The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.
New York, New York
America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.
Hebron, New Hampshire
The New England cabin where an infamous British occultist conducted experiments in "magick".
Hebron, New Hampshire
This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.
Addison, Vermont
Lake Champlain Bridge, the recently demolished and rebuilt bridge where they filmed "What Lies Beneath".
Stonington, Connecticut
Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.
Waterbury, Connecticut
A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.
Boston, Massachusetts
The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.
Boston, Massachusetts
This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.
Cohoes, New York
A 13,000-year-old mastodon skeleton was found during the construction of a 19th-century New York mill.
Barre, Vermont
This large cemetery is known as the museum of granite sculptures.
Groton, Connecticut
The US Navy's only submarine museum is also home to the world's first nuclear submarine.
Peekskill, New York
Astonishing collection of helmets, scientific instruments, and medical models.
Thiells, New York
Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.
Stony Point, New York
Hundreds of numbered stakes hidden in the woods mark the graves of the lost souls of a nearby asylum.
Mount Tremper, New York
The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.
Middlebury, Vermont
The Vermont grave of a 4,000-year-old mummy prince.
Fair Haven, Vermont
Two distinctive homes on a New England village green look like a couple of frosted wedding cakes.
East Haddam, Connecticut
This opera house along the banks of the Connecticut River has two Tony Awards to its credit but it’s never staged a single opera.
East Haddam, Connecticut
One of America's first spies started out as a teacher in this little red one-room schoolhouse.
North Bennington, Vermont
The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."