In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

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

The library of every book lover's dreams.

Golden plates containing what would become the Book of Mormon were believed to be buried on this New York hillside.

A field in which God and his son Jesus purportedly appeared to a young farm boy named Joseph Smith.

A rusted blade sticks out from the trunk of this tree, left as a memorial to a young man who left to fight in the Civil War but never returned home.

A historic home with ties to the abolition and suffrage movements.

This statue commemorates the meeting of the most influential minds of the women’s rights movement.

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

A carriage house converted into what resembles an 11th-century English manor house

A reproduction of a giant humanoid "fossil," a hoax buried locally for construction crews to find and gain national attention.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

A macabre farm reserved part of its 222-acres for dead bodies, all in the name of science.