One of the U.S. Forest Service's only mansions is outfitted with a dinner table for floating food.

The poet's been ambling through these New York woods since 1940.

The largest known open fault in the United States is basically a giant natural refrigerator.

The dairy farm in upstate New York where nearly half a million people gathered for three days of peace and music in 1969.

A winding, cliffside stretch of road overlooking the Delaware River.

The highest point in New Jersey is marked by a massive, if simply named, obelisk.

This disastrous New Jersey safari park saw animal attacks, escapes, and disease before being abandoned.

Adherence to strict Jewish laws is required to enter this ultra-conservative New York village.

This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.

A 19th century hat factory still stands as a crumbling ruin in upstate New York.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

An unassuming island in the middle of the Hudson that hosts campers, including Aleister Crowley.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

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

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

The largest Buddha statue in the Western Hemisphere is just 50 miles north of NYC.

American involvement in World War I officially ended in 1921 in New Jersey, three years late and thousands of miles from the battlefield.

This unassuming retro burger joint was billed as “diner of the future” at the 1939 World's Fair.

The final resting place of a wealthy landowner who helped create the largest public park in Western Massachusetts.