A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

A near tragic event on this bridge helped inspire the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life."

Compensation for the destruction of a historic shipyard.

Etchings in a pile of boulders on the Long Island Sound are a monument to vanquished native peoples.

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

Three gardens with toilets and urinals filled with bright flowers started as a protest against zoning rules.

Fossilized sea bottom and lime quarry.

The Binghamton area is home to six of the last remaining hand-carved vintage carousels.

One sculptor's lifelong war game is the largest and longest running miniature campaign in history.

The remains of the furnace and iron works that produced the massive Hudson River Chain still stand in the woods of New York.

Six peaceful acres in a residential neighborhood dedicated to art and peace.

Tucked away on the second floor of a small town library is one of the great private Victorian taxidermy collections looking today very much like it did in 1909.

Reforestation in action is the main attraction in this abandoned quarry.

This two-room factory has been cranking out the musical signifier of zaniness for a century.

Homemade rockets, dinosaurs, and robots make this New York small business much more than a furniture store.

One of the largest festivals of flowers in North America takes place, appropriately, in the Flower City.

This sprawling taxidermy collection celebrates the art and history of sport hunting.

Believe It or Not, Ripley once called this chiseled mountainside “New York’s Mount Rushmore”.

A peaceful international sculpture garden in upstate New York.

These expertly crafted, scientifically accurate glass sea creatures were once an international phenomenon.

The seat of Buffalo government is a gorgeous Art Deco palace.

An enormous cat made of recycled wood scraps.

The lost town of Neversink, sunk by New York City.

The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.