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32.0806, -81.0946
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Medina, New York
Culvert Road
This small road tunnel is the only place where you can cross beneath the Erie Canal.
43.2356, -78.3403
Ithaca, New York
The A. D. White Library
The library of every book lover's dreams.
42.4478, -76.4853
Ithaca, New York
The Sagan Planet Walk
Pluto is still considered a planet in Ithaca, New York.
42.4396, -76.4966
Ithaca, New York
Wilder Brain Collection
This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.
42.4473, -76.4823
Rochester, New York
Susan B. Anthony Museum & House
"Call for the doctor, call for the nurse... Vote!! said the lady with the alligator purse."
43.1532, -77.6280
Rochester, New York
Rochester Lilac Festival
One of the largest festivals of flowers in North America takes place, appropriately, in the Flower City.
43.1300, -77.6050
Ovid, New York
Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane
An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.
42.6792, -76.8794
Pittsford, New York
Mushroom House of Rochester
Eclectic architecture in the woods of New York.
43.0478, -77.4746
Romulus, New York
Seneca White Deer
World's largest herd of white deer populate a former U.S. Army depot.
42.7544, -76.8658
Seneca Falls, New York
When Anthony Met Stanton
This statue commemorates the meeting of the most influential minds of the women’s rights movement.
42.9088, -76.7947
Seneca Falls, New York
Wesleyan Chapel
What remains of the simple red brick chapel where the women's rights movement began.
42.9110, -76.7999
Sodus, New York
Abandoned Girl Scout Camp at Beechwood State Park
A deteriorating 1990s Girl Scout camp in a beautiful lush park on Lake Ontario.
43.2637, -77.0315
Palmyra, New York
Hill Cumorah
Golden plates containing what would become the Book of Mormon were believed to be buried on this New York hillside.
43.0069, -77.2259
Batavia, New York
Morgan Monument
A towering cemetery monument honors a man who threatened to expose the Freemasons and paid with his life.
42.9923, -78.1726
Rochester, New York
Rochester Abandoned Subway
The remains of a failed subway in upstate New York is now an underground graffiti bunker.
43.1630, -77.6329
Kerhonkson, New York
Gnome Chomsky
"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.
41.7899, -74.2587
Wantage, New Jersey
High Point Monument
The highest point in New Jersey is marked by a massive, if simply named, obelisk.
41.3209, -74.6616
Monroe, New York
Kiryas Joel
Adherence to strict Jewish laws is required to enter this ultra-conservative New York village.
41.3420, -74.1679
Cleveland, Ohio
‘A Christmas Story’ House and Museum
The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.
41.4687, -81.6873
Cleveland, Ohio
The Haserot Angel
The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.
41.5130, -81.5904
Buffalo, New York
Museum of disABILITY History
Museum dedicated to the struggles of the disabled.
42.9621, -78.8082
Peninsula, Ohio
Helltown, Ohio
The tragic reality of a village riddled with rumors of haunts, chemical spills, and serial killers.
41.2633, -81.5594
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
James A. Garfield's Memorial and Tomb
The only presidential monument to display a late POTUS's actual casket.
41.5100, -81.5914
Buffalo, New York
The Relic Collection at St. John Gualbert's Church
This sprawling collection of saintly relics includes such fascinations as wood from the Cross of Jesus and threads from Mary's veil.
42.9099, -78.7936
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