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These tree-filled acres are also filled with history, hiking and a celebration of Appalachian crafts.

At this site, two historic stone bridges spanning the Sing Sing Kill—one right on top of the other.

A physical catalog of ceramics made by the now-defunct Celadon Terra Cotta company.

A menagerie of concrete animals brought together from across New York City's parks.

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

This art center is way beyond your average pumpkin-carving operation.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

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

The largest known open fault in the United States is basically a giant natural refrigerator.

This natural rock "church" might not be a proper chapel but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.

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

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

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

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

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

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

A peaceful international sculpture garden in upstate New York.

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

This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

Coast along one of Japan’s mountain railways for coveted views of magnificent hydrangeas.

A Japanese corporation has turned this small island town into living modern art gallery.