A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A graffiti Mecca welcoming artists from around the world.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

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

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

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

Pluto is still considered a planet in Ithaca, New York.

A gigantic 10-foot tall stone man.

A planned settlement in Pennsylvania once housed the aristocratic refugees of the French Revolution.

The largest guitar store in the world has been visited by some of music's all-time greats passing through upstate New York.

A bronze ballot box stands at the spot where Susan B. Anthony voted illegally.

The home, museum, and death site of Kodak's influential founder.

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.

Golden plates containing what would become the Book of Mormon were believed to be buried on this New York hillside.

A fictional town that was briefly brought to life before fading once again out of existence.

One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.

An old dining hall now serves up ghost stories for lusty locals.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

Where the embers of the Big Bang were first detected.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.