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

Pluto is still considered a planet in Ithaca, New York.

This art center is way beyond your average pumpkin-carving operation.

The library of every book lover's dreams.

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

An upstate New York garage advertises its services by literally putting the automobile above all else.

One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.

The largest guitar store in the world has been visited by some of music's all-time greats passing through upstate New York.

A carriage house converted into what resembles an 11th-century English manor house

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

This theater opened in 1998, but both the building and the puppeteers who perform there have a distinguished history.

The eccentric mansion of one the most popular horror authors of modern times.

This Art Deco theater is the last remaining opera house in the “little Broadway of the North.”

A pair of black granite tails dive into a sea of grass in landlocked Vermont.

Lake Champlain Bridge, the recently demolished and rebuilt bridge where they filmed "What Lies Beneath".

Step into a pastel time capsule where candy is truly dandy.

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

A CT scan revealed the identity of this 3,000-year-old mummy that everyone erroneously thought was female.

This elaborate High Victorian Gothic structure is one of the world's few 16-sided buildings.

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

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

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.