One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

An unlikely beach paradise of giant sand dunes lies between two lakes just a few minutes from Michigan's cherry country.

The park is home to the United States's only still-operating Dutch windmill.

World's largest Christmas store.

Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.

A gothic-styled structure that has been the location for several movies.

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

The place where Samuel "Slater the Traitor" brought the Industrial Revolution to America.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

This lighthouse was witness to the end of WWII hostilities and now collects creepy cairns.

The idyllic colonial home of the artist behind the famous portraits of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

The oldest platform carousel built in the United States continues to delight children in Martha’s Vineyard.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg's famous shark movie.

Hundreds of personalized inscribed planks make up this historic boardwalk.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

This location holds the truth to what truly happened that faithful night.

This tower pays homage to a legendary Viking fort established in Massachusetts that never really existed.

These beautiful garden buildings are among the oldest surviving greenhouses in the United States.