A historic home with ties to the abolition and suffrage movements.

A historic lighthouse steeped in rumors of ghost and pirate stories.

A 13,000-year-old mastodon skeleton was found during the construction of a 19th-century New York mill.

Though the case is scorched and the buttons half-melted, this hardy handheld gaming device can still run a game of Tetris.

More than 350 million years ago, western New York was covered in a vast sea. Today, you can dig up the remains of the plants and animals that lived there.

For a buck, students can snag freshly picked apples grown in the university orchards.

This rare archive of original recordings and photos uncovers the early days of hip hop culture.

Established in 1937, the oldest candy shop in New York City boasts a rainbow-colored inventory that would make Willy Wonka envious.

A living antique aviation museum in the historic town of Red Hook, New York.

This restored house is like a time capsule of the president's unconventional inauguration.

Even for Egyptian royalty, the afterlife was bring-your-own-beef.

The final resting place for the famed creator and narrator of "The Twilight Zone."

Dine on dumplings at the oldest dim sum restaurant in New York.

Antique skeletons and taxidermy creatures were found crammed in a university closet.

Explore the evolution of printing technology, from cuneiform to Kindle.

A gazebo that inspired the fifth episode of the "Twilight Zone" still stands in the creator's hometown

The site of William McKinley's tragic assassination is only marked by an underwhelming boulder.

The first and only American institution dedicated to the enduring value of comedy in the United States.

The schoolhouse where Jesse Merwin, the inspiration for the "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" character, once taught.

The original Uncle Sam was actually a New York meatpacker who is buried under this historic grave.

A former poultry store that looks like a giant duck and is one of the "seven wonders" of Long Island.

Spike Lee's provocative film is officially honored right where it was made, the first time a work of art was used as a secondary street name.

The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.

A sewing machine tycoon built this miniature castle for the people and to beautify a lakeshore.