This 1836 church, constructed by formerly enslaved people, honors a leader in Afrocentric music.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

Western New York's largest independent bookstore doubles as a historical repository of all things Niagara Falls.

Genesis of modern hydroelectric power.

This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground

Lake Champlain Bridge, the recently demolished and rebuilt bridge where they filmed "What Lies Beneath".

Scary metal statues adorn some of the signature buildings of Burlington, VT.

A pair of black granite tails dive into a sea of grass in landlocked Vermont.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

This cabin survived a landslide that killed its owners.

Rock face that shares a name with Mary Shelley's famous doctor.

A beautiful Gilded Age hotel in the White Mountains with surprising diplomatic history.

The only remaining historic maritime signal station in the United States.

Its unique collection details the history of the state's svelte railroads.

An ode to Japanese artist Hokusai, with a bit of a comical twist.

A single light illuminates one man's overshadowed contributions to street lamp history.

You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

After decades of neglect, a brutalist icon is getting new life as an eco-friendly hotel.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

This house was the subject of an Edward Hopper painting, which in turn helped inspire the design of the Bates house in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho.'