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35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

The vaulted ceiling is home to a scurry of “squirrelgoyles.”

Artistic cabins actually grow deep in the Canadian wilderness.

A school teacher's massive and terrifying self-built castle.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

This tiny store is your one-stop shop for all sorts of rare and wonderful buttons.

Some of the best Persian food in New York comes from the front window of an unassuming pizza shop.

Three-story slide through the New Museum.

On the top floor of an upscale department store stands a lavish restaurant housed in a replica of a luxury French dining car.

For almost a century, this East Village newsstand has served egg creams to beats, hippies, punks, and everything in between.

These expertly crafted, scientifically accurate glass sea creatures were once an international phenomenon.

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

This vessel is believed to be the oldest operating fireboat in the world.

After surviving abandonment, this powerful Latin American mural is alive again.

A historical home in upstate New York honors the work of John W. Jones, a formerly enslaved man who was a major agent for the Underground Railroad.

A 13,000-year-old mastodon skeleton was found during the construction of a 19th-century New York mill.

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

This edgy museum will whet your appetite for the industrial history of Western New York.

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