This lavish room at NYC's French Embassy is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

Visit a sweet shop selling one of the first candies ever made and sold in America.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

A physical catalog of ceramics made by the now-defunct Celadon Terra Cotta company.

It may appear to be a fancy junk yard, but each item has a story to tell and a lesson to impart.

This inexpensive lodging house was once a prison notorious for its inhumane practices.

The only museum about the history of dentistry in Canada.

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

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

Pick up a kebab and a credenza at this unique combination furniture store and café.

This historic folk museum celebrates the attention to detail that makes America great.

Dispersed across 45-acres, 39 structures house a massive collection celebrating American Folk Art.

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

Cheap art and political theater in Vermont.

This unusual building straddles two countries.

This folk art dinosaur was almost pushed to extinction due to lack of a building permit.

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruous in rural Vermont.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

These mysterious petroglyphs in Vermont reflect a troubled history in the treatment of Native American culture.

The life of one of FDR's possible mistresses is preserved in her palatial Hudson Valley mansion.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

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