In DeWitt, New York, a blanket-wrapped gas station makes a creative statement on global dependence on oil.

A near tragic event on this bridge helped inspire the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life."

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

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

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

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

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.

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

Opened in 1947, this is the oldest continuously-operating drive-in theater in New York.

The final resting place of Harriet Tubman and other famous historical figures.

A Frankenstein blend of science and art allows one tree to produce 40 different types of stone fruit.

A collection of witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

What was one of the largest hotels in the country burned to the ground in a tragic fire.

In 2004, a Dave Matthews Band tour bus dumped 800 pounds of waste off a bridge and onto an unsuspecting tour boat below.

A 400-foot-tall tall map of Chicago makes this once-ignored building stand out.

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.

A lone traffic cone perched on a ledge has remained unmoved since at least 2011, unofficially earning the status of a tiny Chicago landmark.

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.