It wouldn't be long after purchasing this farm, Brown would lead his siege on Harper's Ferry.

At this farm in upstate New York, the former president plotted his reelection campaign.

A near tragic event on this bridge helped inspire the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life."

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

The quarry was abandoned over 100 years ago, after a massive ammunition explosion ended in tragedy.

What remains of the simple red brick chapel where the women's rights movement began.

The summit Roosevelt conquered before he descended to become The Chief.

This humble historic facade hides a history of boozing and the gentlemanly sport of rat-fighting.

A plaque immortalizes the spot where the early American spy said his famous last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

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

The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

The life of one of FDR's possible mistresses is preserved in her palatial Hudson Valley mansion.

See wolves, coyotes, and arctic foxes in a natural environment smack in the middle of New York State.

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

The artist and New York City icon lived, worked and died in this converted carriage house owned by another iconic artist, Andy Warhol.

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.

Not even a series of devastating fires could keep this odd castle in upstate New York from bouncing back.

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.

Comprehensive gaming collection of over 30,000 electronic games and consoles.

Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.