These expertly crafted, scientifically accurate glass sea creatures were once an international phenomenon.

The library of every book lover's dreams.

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

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

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

This art center is way beyond your average pumpkin-carving operation.

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

A quaint village in Western New York named after Alexander Hamilton's beloved sister-in-law.

This recreation of a 19th-century dime museum is full of oddities.

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

When the Austin Dam failed it destroyed much of Austin...and then it failed again.

This lush forest valley was once mined for lumber to the extent that it was once nicknamed "The Pennsylvania Desert."

The aggressively banal name of this underground fortress of bureaucracy does little to evoke its truly surreal existence.

Over 100 concrete munitions bunkers are all that remain of a Pennsylvanian village seized by the US government.

A tradition unlike any other, this marks the site of the annual Groundhog's Day tradition.

A well-preserved relic of the industrial age steel and iron works that dotted West Virginia.

This university transit system is a 1970's vision of the future.