This museum pays tribute to the largest group in the Iroquois Confederacy.

The third version of this tall sailing ship sits, rusted and burnt, in Lake Ontario.

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

A forsaken wonder in the middle of the East Side neighborhood.

Buffalo's abandoned concrete grain elevators are getting a second life.

This modernist island church incorporates the Finnish nature into its worship practices.

This museum in the woods evokes the work and lives of Michigan's 19-century lumberjacks.

A hidden bar inside an ad agency has a deliberately misleading name, so employees can stay late under pretext of paperwork.

A 115-year-old restored German dining hall awaits those who venture beneath the Minnesota State Capitol.

A secret door leads to this cozy dive that sells only “milk.”

This whimsical fountain pays tribute to Toronto's four-legged friends.

The giant birds honor two native North American species.

In the back of a bustling factory lurks a quiet museum honoring the history of Canadian sugar manufacturing.

The oldest landmark of Toronto is a testament to shifting sands.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

A historic recreation of the golden age of the Erie Canal, abandoned for some time, slowly being restored.

This restored log building was one of the first toll booths for travelers along the Northern Turnpike.

There is beauty and history in the ruins of this former company town.

It took over 100 years to decode this enigmatic epitaph for two buried brides.

It marks the spooky spot where the bodies of two young boys were found in the 19th century.

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

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

The ruined remains of a coal mining ghost town are hidden within the woods.

Among the cliffs of the Elora Gorge is an oft-overlooked piece of celebratory graffiti.