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This locally-famous crevasse in New York State is icy all year round.

A former connection to City Island, it has been abandoned since the 1930s.

Every year model trains zip through a miniature New York City that's now 150 landmarks strong.

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

See wolves, coyotes, and arctic foxes in a natural environment smack in the middle of New York State.

Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

This outpost of America's most popular fast-food restaurant is housed inside a palatial mansion.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

Hundreds of antique bank vault locks on display in New York City.

This small, hidden cove is home to abandoned boats.

The first "Hall of Fame" in America was designed by legendary Gilded Age architect Stanford White for what was then the NYU uptown campus.

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.

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

This was one of the first (and last) university-built and operated nuclear reactors.

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

The highest point on the island known for buildings that touch the sky.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

An abandoned 19th century quarry in the middle of the woods, remade by unnamed wanderers into a massive series of rock thrones.

Join in a Seance at the Swedenborgian Church.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

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

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.