A 19th-century architectural wonder designed by the "father of the skyscraper."

Rochester's signature culinary delicacy.

A giant steel sculpture with animals in its shadows.

The remains of a failed subway in upstate New York is now an underground graffiti bunker.

The floor-to-ceiling collection in an old factory is a unique alternative to stuffy galleries.

Eclectic architecture in the woods of New York.

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

Golden plates containing what would become the Book of Mormon were believed to be buried on this New York hillside.

Abandoned rock quarry now a haven for mountain bikers and hikers.

A 10-foot-tall concrete Alley Oop statue left over from World War II now stands on the side of the road.

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

In DeWitt, New York, a blanket-wrapped gas station makes a creative statement on global dependence on oil.

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

This lakeside tower is the third attempt at getting a tourist destination to stick on the spot.

This wooly sculpture supposedly marks the birthplace of a famous nursery rhyme, or not.

A disastrous shipwreck and a tragic love story.

The ceiling of this vintage movie palace is covered in fantastic Art Deco murals.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

The Burnside Fountain and its questionable interpretation.

A lighthouse on a diminutive island was one of the first of its kind to guide seamen home.

Where Eunice Williams was murdered by natives, and where locals say her ghost still haunts.

The Atlantis of Cape Cod reemerges during the lowest of tides.

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.