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

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

A former seaside jewel built for the everyman is now simply a neglected art deco fortress.

The largest guitar store in the world has been visited by some of music's all-time greats passing through upstate New York.

A memorial to the first person killed by a motor vehicle in the Western Hemisphere.

The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.

The first American home of the isolated, egalitarian religion has a trove of Shaker architecture and artifacts.

The lost town of Neversink, sunk by New York City.

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

The last living thing to come out of the rubble after 9/11 is now a symbol of hope and resilience.

This Orthodox Church's exterior is rather unorthodox.

The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.

Rochester's signature culinary delicacy.

Pulled from the rubble of one of the worst modern tragedies, a steel crossbeam became a symbol of hope for New Yorkers.

This lovely little pond is named after the hundreds of soldiers' corpses that were rolled into the waters during the French-Indian War.

This forlorn park is the result of a failed investment turned tax dodge.

"Call for the doctor, call for the nurse... Vote!! said the lady with the alligator purse."

A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.

A historic recreation of the golden age of the Erie Canal, abandoned for some time, slowly being restored.

The original Uncle Sam was actually a New York meatpacker who is buried under this historic grave.

One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.

This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.

The oldest Dutch colonial stone house in New York City is a hidden gem on the border of Brooklyn and Queens.

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