The highest tides in the world come in and out here twice a day, allowing you to essentially walk along the ocean floor.

"Congress may voluntarily remain in session throughout the summer, in order that our Congressmen may be protected from the intolerable discomforts and dangers of the ordinary outdoor weather!”

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

A museum of anything and everything Stooge.

A gazebo that inspired the fifth episode of the "Twilight Zone" still stands in the creator's hometown

Parking garage where Bob Woodward met Watergate source "Deep Throat."

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.

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

The site of William McKinley's tragic assassination is only marked by an underwhelming boulder.

Museum dedicated to the struggles of the disabled.

This massive melon is a recreation of a similar gate from the Pan-American Expo.

A beautifully designed asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center with a ghost story or two.

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

Pluto is still considered a planet in Ithaca, New York.

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

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

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

The birthplace of America's favorite fruit-flavored mystery dessert.

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

The "last holdout of the Confederacy” actually sat at the edge of the Canadian border.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.