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Mark Twain's Study

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

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Mark Twain's Grave

The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.

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'Hellmira' Monument

All that remains of one of the Civil War's more deadly POW camps is a simple flagstone.

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John W. Jones Museum

A historical home in upstate New York honors the work of the former slave, John W. Jones.

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Corning Museum of Glass

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

13 miles from Elmira

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