An interesting look into 18th-century American history.

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.

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

A physical catalog of ceramics made by the now-defunct Celadon Terra Cotta company.

A quaint village in Western New York named after Alexander Hamilton's beloved sister-in-law.

This former hub for crafty philosophers was founded by a writer who died aboard the infamous RMS Lusitania.

This historic fort spans more the 300 years.

This impressive working clock made of 16,000 plants changes its flowers twice a year.

A 19th-century architectural wonder designed by the "father of the skyscraper."

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest—and favorite—architectural masterpieces was almost lost.

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.

A collection of the best toys ever made inside a museum devoted to play.

A pride of the state, this working museum crafts pottery mosaics in the style of Pennsylvania's earliest European settlers.

This collection honors the iconic, and proudly American lighter that just won't quit.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

On the waterfront of Sydney, Nova Scotia, a 60-ft. fiddle greets incoming ships.

This tiny abode has been covered in the art of the little old lady who made her life and living there.