The third tallest lighthouse in America once guided author Stephen Crane to safety.

Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.

Memorializing an American tragedy of massive proportions.

A monument to the “unrecognized dead” of the tragic 1876 train crash.

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

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

Rochester's signature culinary delicacy.

A quaint village in Western New York named after Alexander Hamilton's beloved sister-in-law.

Town full of spiritualists, some of whom are mediums, is still in full swing after 130 years.

A towering cemetery monument honors a man who threatened to expose the Freemasons and paid with his life.

This seemingly cursed monument is dedicated to one of Canada's great war heroes.

This impressive working clock made of 16,000 plants changes its flowers twice a year.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

This two-room factory has been cranking out the musical signifier of zaniness for a century.

The "last holdout of the Confederacy” actually sat at the edge of the Canadian border.

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

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest—and favorite—architectural masterpieces was almost lost.

An elaborate memorial to a man local legend says died of a broken heart.

This former hub for crafty philosophers was founded by a writer who died aboard the infamous RMS Lusitania.

This restored house is like a time capsule of the president's unconventional inauguration.

The seat of Buffalo government is a gorgeous Art Deco palace.

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

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

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