Nursing bruises and bites, travellers are able to discover an abandoned city that is still revealing its secrets, exploring green copses and stone paths through dense jungle, bathing in waterfalls, sleeping among ruins, and most majestic of all, watching the clouds spill across the terraces at sunset each night.

BBC: Trekking to Colombia��s Lost City

Developer William West Durant's Camp Pine Knot, begun on Raquette Lake in 1877, established the architectural idiom of these retreats--log-cabin construction, stone chimneys, decorative woodwork--and the camps proliferated throughout the dense woods of northeastern New York.

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