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

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

A mummy and sarcophagus are part of the many wonders in this library's collection.

This New York estate was designed to resemble a medieval Scottish castle.

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

Antique skeletons and taxidermy creatures were found crammed in a university closet.

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

Created by four famous men, the beautifully designed Buffalo State Asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center, but still boasts a ghost story or two.

Buffalo's abandoned concrete grain elevators are getting a second life.

Western New York's largest independent bookstore doubles as a historical repository of all things Niagara Falls.

Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

This former hub for crafty philosophers was founded by a writer who died aboard the infamous RMS Lusitania.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

This manor in the woods memorializes one of the greatest birders of a generation.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

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

Not even a series of devastating fires could keep this odd castle in upstate New York from bouncing back.

This small road tunnel is the only place where you can cross beneath the Erie Canal.

Take an underground boat ride through a former hydraulic raceway that was built in the late 19th century.

An abandoned tuberculosis hospital moulders on into an uncertain future.

Home on the Hillside, and home of the first breakfast cereal.

These mouldering mansion ruins remember a time when the Catskills were nothing but luxury.

This 1850s mansion reveals how rich Americans lived in the Victorian era.

The final resting place of Harriet Tubman and other famous historical figures.