A room hidden behind a swinging shelf in the children's section.

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

A bronze ballot box stands at the spot where Susan B. Anthony voted illegally.

One of the largest festivals of flowers in North America takes place, appropriately, in the Flower City.

"Call for the doctor, call for the nurse... Vote!! said the lady with the alligator purse."

A giant steel sculpture with animals in its shadows.

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

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

Called the “General Motors of the piano industry,” these buildings once produced as many as 700 pianos a week.

Home on the Hillside, and home of the first breakfast cereal.

Eclectic architecture in the woods of New York.

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

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

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

The press that first printed the Book of Mormon.

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.

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

In the mid-19th century, an eight-sided house was the latest fad.

What remains of the simple red brick chapel where the women's rights movement began.

This statue commemorates the meeting of the most influential minds of the women’s rights movement.

A near tragic event on this bridge helped inspire the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life."

A historic home with ties to the abolition and suffrage movements.

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