Sands Point, New York
Sands Point Preserve
The former estate of the Guggenheims, part of the opulent Gold Coast that inspired the Great Gatsby.
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Sands Point, New York
The former estate of the Guggenheims, part of the opulent Gold Coast that inspired the Great Gatsby.
Dobbs Ferry, New York
This once-grand marvel of engineering is now 41 miles of scenic hiking trail.
Oyster Bay, New York
Spies, love letters, and ghost stories have all left their mark on this home-cum-museum.
Sandwich, Massachusetts
This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.
Sandwich, Massachusetts
35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.
Sleepy Hollow, New York
The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.
Thiells, New York
Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.
Centerport, New York
A millionaire's abandoned swimming pool from the gilded age of one of America's most distinguished families.
Kings Park, New York
Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.
Tomkins Cove, New York
Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.
Stamford, Connecticut
Forgotten under the construction of a new urban roadway is a small, abandoned part of town.
Cold Spring, New York
Reforestation in action is the main attraction in this abandoned quarry.
Cold Spring, New York
A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.
Beacon, New York
This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.
Beacon, New York
The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.
Mount Tremper, New York
The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.
New Paltz, New York
This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.
Fair Haven, Vermont
Two distinctive homes on a New England village green look like a couple of frosted wedding cakes.
Wareham, Massachusetts
The world's best collection to gauge whether or not you should wear a scarf outside.
Hanover, New Hampshire
3,200-square-foot mural inside Dartmouth Library depicts the history of America with images of human sacrifice, ancient gods, and other unspeakable terrors.
South Salem, New York
Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.
Saratoga Springs, New York
The first evidence of some of the Earth's earliest life was found in this fossilized undersea grotto.
Elka Park, New York
An abandoned 19th century quarry in the middle of the woods, remade by unnamed wanderers into a massive series of rock thrones.
Granville, New York
Tucked away on the second floor of a small town library is one of the great private Victorian taxidermy collections looking today very much like it did in 1909.