This unique crypt designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his longtime friend was not completed in either man's lifetime.

The absurd creation is a compulsory destination for selfies in Buffalo.

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

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

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

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

A forsaken wonder in the middle of the East Side neighborhood.

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

In DeWitt, New York, a blanket-wrapped gas station makes a creative statement on global dependence on oil.

This vessel is believed to be the oldest operating fireboat in the world.

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

This former hub for crafty philosophers was founded by a writer who died aboard the infamous RMS Lusitania.

The private island of Yale's elite Skull & Bones society is kind of a dump.

A 19th-century architectural wonder designed by the "father of the skyscraper."

Its original statue was deemed so ugly, locals called it “Scary Lucy.”

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.

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

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

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

The largest guitar store in the world has been visited by some of music's all-time greats passing through upstate New York.

Rochester's signature culinary delicacy.

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

A sewing machine tycoon built this miniature castle for the people and to beautify a lakeshore.

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