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

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

Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

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

Created by four famous men, the beautifully designed Buffalo State Asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center, but still boasts a ghost story or two.

The seat of Buffalo government is a gorgeous Art Deco palace.

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

Ruins of a once-prized railroad station in New York.

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

This Frank Lloyd Wright summer house was designed along Lake Erie as a retreat for a client's wife.

Where one of the worst train disasters in the country took place, leading to upgrades in rail safety.

A quirky collection of outsider art made from automobile parts.

Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.

The only statue of its kind to commemorate Washington's beginnings as an officer of the British Colonial Militia.

Where the oil industry began.

The site of America's first commercial oil well essentially disappeared after the town went bust.

A real flying saucer, contracted by the U.S. Air Force.

You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.

This stuffed pigeon of war had the very serious name "John Silver" until he lost a leg in battle.

Inside houses a vast collection of military aircraft and missiles spanning the ages.

The grandiose interior of this bar speaks to its past as home to famous jewelers and railway offices.

Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.

A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.

Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.