Roslyn, New York
The Ruins of Harbor Hill
All that remains of a magnate's dream home is a historic gate and an abandoned public pool.
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Roslyn, New York
All that remains of a magnate's dream home is a historic gate and an abandoned public pool.
Queens, New York
This Orthodox Church's exterior is rather unorthodox.
Queens, New York
A temple belonging to the largest Buddhist order in South Korea nestled in the middle of New York City.
Queens, New York
This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.
Queens, New York
A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.
Queens, New York
Where the four original members of the Ramones hung out and revolutionized punk rock.
Lake George, New York
This lovely little pond is named after the hundreds of soldiers' corpses that were rolled into the waters during the French-Indian War.
Lake George, New York
A mysterious echo seems to defy the laws of acoustics.
Lake George, New York
This throwback amusement park is home to rides and unique storybook figures from the past.
Fair Haven, Vermont
Two distinctive homes on a New England village green look like a couple of frosted wedding cakes.
Rutland, Vermont
A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruously in rural Vermont.
Danby, Vermont
The world’s largest underground marble quarry is hiding in Vermont.
Dorset, Vermont
This cavernous abandoned marble mine is popular with ice skaters in the winter.
North Adams, Massachusetts
Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.
North Adams, Massachusetts
Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.
Williamstown, Massachusetts
This abandoned neighborhood is now a park filled with beautiful trees, wildflowers, and hints of its past.
North Adams, Massachusetts
The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.
Saratoga Springs, New York
A beautiful multicolored mound formed by the mineral deposits of the Orenda Spring.
Cohoes, New York
A 13,000-year-old mastodon skeleton was found during the construction of a 19th-century New York mill.
Albany, New York
The first American home of the isolated, egalitarian religion has a trove of Shaker architecture and artifacts.
Troy, New York
This relic of 19th-century infrastructure is one of the few remaining coal gas storage tanks in the U.S.
Troy, New York
A man used his Civil War-era fortune to build this sanctuary in memory of his wife.
Cold Spring, New York
A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.
Kinderhook, New York
At this farm in upstate New York, the former president plotted his reelection campaign.