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A stunning garden filled with fantastical environmental folk art and sculptures.

A Gothic-style abode built to accommodate the church's three resident peacocks.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

One of the only single-person private gravesites in New York City.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

Monument on the spot where in 1778, Bathsheba Spooner had her husband Joshua killed and dumped down his own well.

Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

Every year model trains zip through a miniature New York City that's now 150 landmarks strong.

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

An activist who committed her life to peace and women's suffrage.

A monument stands to the famous suffragist who penned the declaration for women's equal rights, including the right to vote.

A whimsical monument deep in this park commemorates the groups that helped build it.

This derelict building used to house infirm Freemasons, their widows, and orphans.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

A large camera obscura, constructed entirely from digitally fabricated components.

An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.

A former poultry store that looks like a giant duck and is one of the "seven wonders" of Long Island.

The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

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

This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.

This sprawling woodland estate was the brainchild of iconic American industrial designer Russel Wright.