Niagara Falls holds a special place in Nikola Tesla's history, so they put a statue on it.

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

A mysterious lake provides fresh water without any source, somehow restoring itself from atop its mountaintop perch.

A beautiful final resting place with some surprising residents.

A singular collection of hand-built art deco cars are held in a building with style to match.

One of the world's largest model railroads is a mind-boggling achievement.

Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

Where the Model T was made and the assembly line was invented.

The world's oldest operating jazz club has been in operation since May 1934.

A painted-over wall in Detroit originally built to segregate a black community from an adjacent white development.

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

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

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

A tree full of wishes and footwear.

Museum dedicated to the struggles of the disabled.

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

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

A deteriorating 1990s Girl Scout camp in a beautiful lush park on Lake Ontario.

The birthplace of America's favorite fruit-flavored mystery dessert.

Eclectic architecture in the woods of New York.

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