The schoolhouse where Jesse Merwin, the inspiration for the "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" character, once taught.

Antique skeletons and taxidermy creatures were found crammed in a university closet.

The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.

The home, museum, and death site of Kodak's influential founder.

An old dining hall now serves up ghost stories for lusty locals.

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

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

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

The abandoned ruins of America's first private zoo are open for exploration in the Catskills.

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

This tiny church near Sleepy Hollow contains Henri Matisse's last work, a rose window, and nine windows by Marc Chagall.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

Vermont's hills are alive with the sound of music at this historic hotel.

Antique gaffe kept in the basement of a small Vermont natural history museum.

A unique work of art that was created without permission.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

This roadside dinosaur park offered up lumpy neon thunder lizards in the name of kitsch and education.

The shared home of a utopian commune that practiced "free love" a century before the hippies.

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

Hiroshima survivor on Riverside Drive.

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

This ruined fort hidden at the top of Central Park can't seem to keep from losing its historical plaques.