This stately 19th century library pushed architectural boundaries at a time when the public library movement was just taking off.

This collection honors the iconic, and proudly American lighter that just won't quit.

This small road tunnel is the only place where you can cross beneath the Erie Canal.

A beautifully designed asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center with a ghost story or two.

Ruins of a once-prized railroad station in New York.

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.

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

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.

The entire length of the border is marked by a 20-foot-wide slash through the trees.

The beams of the New College, Oxford dining hall come with an amazing story.

Oxford University's stateliest library seems designed to make students truly feel the weight of knowledge.

This bridge is the first to be made entirely from iron, but designed like it was still made of wood.

A magnificent Victorian garden that brings the charm and style of old-time aristocracy to the 21st century public.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

A real plaque marks the spot where a Faulknerian character committed fictional suicide.

A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

This giant Boston statue of Mary is standing on a globe to show her power over the universe.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.