Ruins of a once-prized railroad station in New York.

An abandoned tuberculosis hospital moulders on into an uncertain future.

A collection of unique outdoor sculptures surounded by the beauty of nature.

It would take 35 firetrucks to fill this enormous glacial pothole.

A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.

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

All that remains of one of the Civil War's more deadly POW camps is a simple flagstone.

A historical home in upstate New York honors the work of John W. Jones, a formerly enslaved man who was a major agent for the Underground Railroad.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.

This peaceful gem in upstate New York was chosen as the future home of the 14th Dalai Lama's Library and Museum.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

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

A reproduction of a giant humanoid "fossil," a hoax buried locally for construction crews to find and gain national attention.

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

A rusted blade sticks out from the trunk of this tree, left as a memorial to a young man who left to fight in the Civil War but never returned home.

A historic home with ties to the abolition and suffrage movements.

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.

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

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

The shared home of a utopian commune that practiced "free love" a century before the hippies.

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

A sewing machine tycoon built this miniature castle for the people and to beautify a lakeshore.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.