It's clear this abandoned Art Deco gem was no ordinary cleaners.

Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.

After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.

Curtiss is a forgotten figure in the early history of flight.

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

This exhibit allows visitors to wander through the interior of a replica Ice Age glacial cave.

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.

This peaceful gem in upstate New York was chosen as the future home of the 14th Dalai Lama's Library and Museum.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

All that remains of one of the Civil War's more deadly POW camps is a simple flagstone.

Canada's largest dinosaur skeleton was hidden away in storage for more than 40 years.

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

A historical home in upstate New York honors the work of John W. Jones, a formerly enslaved man who was a major agent for the Underground Railroad.

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

Alexander Milliner, a favorite of General Washington, is interred at Mt. Hope Cemetery along with 80 other Revolutionary War veterans.

Antique skeletons and taxidermy creatures were found crammed in a university closet.

An abandoned tuberculosis hospital moulders on into an uncertain future.

A forsaken wonder in the middle of the East Side neighborhood.

The abandoned ruins of America's first private zoo are open for exploration in the Catskills.

The small burial plot is located in a mall parking lot.

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

The home, museum, and death site of Kodak's influential founder.