Rochester's signature culinary delicacy.

Serving Central Asian breads that range from cracker-crisp to warm and fluffy, this bakery brings Bukhara to Queens.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

This neighborhood grocery houses a treasure trove of Eastern European delights.

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

The dairy farm in upstate New York where nearly half a million people gathered for three days of peace and music in 1969.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.

The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.

This unassuming retro burger joint was billed as “diner of the future” at the 1939 World's Fair.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

Giant novelty guitars now mark the spot where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.