This Frank Lloyd Wright summer house was designed along Lake Erie as a retreat for a client's wife.

The library of every book lover's dreams.

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

This landmark jazz venue is the oldest continuously running African-American club in the United States.

Buffalo's abandoned concrete grain elevators are getting a second life.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest—and favorite—architectural masterpieces was almost lost.

Ruins of a once-prized railroad station in New York.

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

This peaceful gem in upstate New York was chosen as the future home of the 14th Dalai Lama's Library and Museum.

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

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

This art center is way beyond your average pumpkin-carving operation.

This Upstate New York park squeezes a lot of history into its two-acre triangular space.

A masked wrestling legend has opened the first U.S. course devoted to a meditative Japanese golf variant.

This exhibit pays tribute to the “humble tinkerer” who invented the implantable pacemaker.

A six-story treehouse offers spectacular views of New York's Finger Lakes region.

A quaint village in Western New York named after Alexander Hamilton's beloved sister-in-law.

A tree full of wishes and footwear.

An off the grid woodland retreat that harkens back to days long forgotten.

This small road tunnel is the only place where you can cross beneath the Erie Canal.

One patriotic farmer's ode to the 9/11 tragedy remains even after the farm changed hands.

World's largest herd of white deer populate a former U.S. Army depot.

Home on the Hillside, and home of the first breakfast cereal.

A towering cemetery monument honors a man who threatened to expose the Freemasons and paid with his life.