Villa Park, Illinois
Ebenezer Floppen Slopper's Wonderful Abandoned Water Slides
This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.
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Villa Park, Illinois
This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.
Chicago, Illinois
A long lost multi-cultural music venue used to reside in the bottom floor of Chicago's Flat Iron Building.
Chicago, Illinois
The largest interactive exhibition in the U.S. exploring human history through the lens of power, punishment, and psychology.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
It is the oldest remaining stairway William Penn created to give Philadelphia citizens access to the port area.
Brooklyn, New York
This Brooklyn curiosity shop has its own magic theater and a singing mechanical bird that sparked an online feud with Kelly Clarkson.
Brooklyn, New York
An out-of-service tunnel and nearby remembrances recall the location of a deadly train crash in the New York City subway.
Allentown, Pennsylvania
The entire history of Mack Trucking Company in one place along with vintage and experimental vehicles, movie props, and engineering archives from over 100 of building vehicles.
Brookline, Massachusetts
Inside a grand Victorian-era carriage house is the oldest automobile collection in the United States.
New York, New York
It memorializes America’s initial military response to the terrorist attacks on our country on September 11, 2001.
Salem, New York
This sprawling art park is filled with sculptures, nature trails, and art workshops.
Schoharie, New York
A tiny village in Upstate New York ushered in the precursor to drive-in movies.
Roxbury, New York
The Catskills retreat of naturalist writer John Burroughs.
Gilboa, New York
This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.
Prattsville, New York
Believe It or Not, Ripley once called this chiseled mountainside “New York’s Mount Rushmore”.
Hunter, New York
This stave church nestled in the Catskills was built in the 1960s by a community of Ukrainian immigrants and refugees.
Schroon Lake, New York
This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground
Hague, New York
The graphite created here was used in the manufacturing of pencils.
Ticonderoga, New York
A perfect replica of the beloved show's first set.
Wilton, New York
This picturesque cottage was the site of Ulysses S. Grant’s final and perhaps most important campaign.
Cohoes, New York
The largest roller-skating rink in the world.
Earlton, New York
This one-man homegrown eatery may be the world's most exclusive restaurant with its five-year waiting list.
Saugerties, New York
An historic lighthouse accessible via a half-mile walk through a nature preserve and freshwater tidal wetlands.
Arden, New York
A 19th-century blast furnace that played a big role in the area’s industrial development.
Ballston Spa, New York
The birthplace of the alleged inventor of baseball.