Saugerties, New York
Opus 40
One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.
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Saugerties, New York
One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.
Mount Tremper, New York
The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.
Beacon, New York
This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.
New Paltz, New York
The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.
New Windsor, New York
100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.
Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania
The house that Frank Lloyd Wright "(shook) out of his sleeve at will" at the age of 86.
Mill Run, Pennsylvania
Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.
Corning, New York
Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.
Kerhonkson, New York
"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.
New Paltz, New York
This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.
Beacon, New York
This abandoned cemetery is crumbling into ruin, exposing the artifacts and bodies buried there.
Port Jervis, New York
A winding, cliffside stretch of road overlooking the Delaware River.
Wantage, New Jersey
The highest point in New Jersey is marked by a massive, if simply named, obelisk.
Monroe, New York
Adherence to strict Jewish laws is required to enter this ultra-conservative New York village.
Stony Point, New York
Hundreds of numbered stakes hidden in the woods mark the graves of the lost souls of a nearby asylum.
Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey
This crumbling little graveyard was saved from the undergrowth by concerned veterans.
Carlstadt, New Jersey
Infamous marsh filled with toxic waste, World War II-era London rubble, and dead mobsters galore.
Rutherford, New Jersey
Seven golden statues rise into the sky from sculptor Victor Victori's New Jersey front lawn.
New York, New York
Manhattan's Thirteenth Avenue was made on landfill then deliberately destroyed — apart from one small, obscure block.
Jersey City, New Jersey
A playground inspired by differential calculus dangles from the ceiling of the Liberty Science Center.
Daly City, California
A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.
San Francisco, California
A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.
San Francisco, California
A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.
San Francisco, California
The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.