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This whimsically unique butterfly farm focuses solely on creating habitats for the gentle insects.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

Small shop offering mail-order rare and exotic plants.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

A 19th century hat factory still stands as a crumbling ruin in upstate New York.

Explore the evolution of printing technology, from cuneiform to Kindle.

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

A giant steel sculpture with animals in its shadows.

One of the U.S. Forest Service's only mansions is outfitted with a dinner table for floating food.

A wonderful world of rare fruits and flowering trees grows in a small botanical park in Bradenton.

One of the largest festivals of flowers in North America takes place, appropriately, in the Flower City.

Wood carving meets bird conservation at this museum showcasing the life's work of one man.

Driftwood dinosaurs lurk within trees covered in a rainbow array of avian abodes.

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

Dozens of bronze sculptures are woven into the landscape along this trail.

A massive sustainable farm designed by the mastermind behind Central Park.

This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

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

Scary metal statues adorn some of the signature buildings of Burlington, Vermont.

A mysterious lake provides fresh water without any source, somehow restoring itself from atop its mountaintop perch.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."