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

This castle-like building in Manhattan helped destigmatize cancer in the 19th century.

This small New York museum celebrates the mountainous artwork of a Russian mystic.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

Originally built in 1869, this castle is currently part of Felician University's campus.

This Manhattan museum houses one of the largest collections of Spanish art and manuscripts outside of Spain.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

Seriously good slices of Sicilian pizza lurk at the back of the Bronx's oldest enclosed market.

This hidden oasis features a stunning view of the Hudson River and the Palisades from a castle-like museum.

Famed activist Hellen Keller was involved in the operation and administration of this vacation home for blind women starting in the early 20th century.

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

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

This fancifully decorated Victorian home in New York’s Hudson Valley is the only known fully domed octagonal residence in the United States.

This tiny church near Sleepy Hollow contains Henri Matisse's last work, a rose window, and nine windows by Marc Chagall.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

The ruins of a burned-down monastery have become a serene park and community space. 

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.

Take a step inside the picturesque studio of America’s most renowned sculptor.

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

Plans for this peninsula included houses, the United Nations Headquarters, and a nuclear power plant. When none of them worked out, it became an expansive park.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.