This Buffalo museum hides an Art Deco gas station designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

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

The poet's been ambling through these New York woods since 1940.

On the shores of Lake Superior, a small group of monks makes sacred sweets.

One of the largest crucifixes in the world stands 55 feet tall in a secluded, wooded area of northern Michigan.

Little did a museum know, they possessed the last-known lunch wagon in existence.

One of Detroit’s oldest blues clubs stands in defiance of the passage of time and the city’s shifting fortunes.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

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

An antique cemetery in New York, this land is home to any number of famed corpses.

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

This backwater graveyard in the Hamptons became a trendy burial spot and posthumous status symbol for famous artists.

A fire station-turned-church-turned-museum dedicated to the work of seminal light artist Dan Flavin.

This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.

This whimsically unique butterfly farm focuses solely on creating habitats for the gentle insects.

One-time largest man-made structure in the world will be a park in 30 years.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

The collection is exhibited in a Staten Island building modeled on traditional Himalayan architecture.

The largest Buddha statue in the Western Hemisphere is just 50 miles north of NYC.

Town full of spiritualists, some of whom are mediums, is still in full swing after 130 years.