A building at the vacant Grossinger's Catskill Resort Hotel was destroyed after being engulfed in flames Tuesday, the Liberty Fire Department reported. The hotel in the Catskill mountains in ...

(based on an original idea by Rita Lakin and Doris Silverton) This is the unbelievably true story of the rise of the famous Catskills resort, Grossingers, through the efforts of that one-of-a-kind ...

(Fictional Kellerman's resort in "Dirty Dancing" was modeled after the real-life Grossinger's Catskills Resort Hotel that reigned in the area for several decades.) Today, modern high-rise casinos ...

Grossinger's Resort in the Catskills, then and now.Courtesy of Marisa Scheinfeld Eastern State Penitentiary opened in 1829 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Eastern State Penitentiary opened in 1829.