Places meltingknight Wants to Go

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

This graceful little figure is a one-of-a-kind version of the cherished character.

A tiny islet just off Long Island offers a wealth of infectious curiosities.

A large camera obscura, constructed entirely from digitally fabricated components.

Haunted Victorian house that inspired a legendary "Ghostbusters" court ruling.

The Vatican of the movie industry turned into an actual church.

A mysterious air force base built to resemble a Long Island fishing village.

Self-sufficient greenhouse floating on the Hudson River.

This Queens hospital has stood abandoned for almost 20 years after its patients were secretly relocated in the dead of night.

A collection of the best toys ever made inside a museum devoted to play.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

This throwback amusement park is home to rides and unique storybook figures from the past.

The former estate of the Guggenheims, part of the opulent Gold Coast that inspired the Great Gatsby.

An old dining hall now serves up ghost stories for lusty locals.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

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

The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.

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

An antique cemetery in New York, this land is home to any number of famed corpses.

This dilapidated castle-like structure overlooks the Hudson River at one of its widest points and was once home to nuns.

Eclectic architecture in the woods of New York.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

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