More than 350 million years ago, western New York was covered in a vast sea. Today, you can dig up the remains of the plants and animals that lived there.

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

This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.

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

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

This elegant structure at the heart of a Finger Lakes town was originally a drinking fountain.

This Upstate New York park squeezes a lot of history into its two-acre triangular space.

A mummy and sarcophagus are part of the many wonders in this library's collection.

A 10-foot-tall concrete Alley Oop statue left over from World War II now stands on the side of the road.