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A historic home with ties to the abolition and suffrage movements.

The first American home of the isolated, egalitarian religion has a trove of Shaker architecture and artifacts.

A historic recreation of the golden age of the Erie Canal, abandoned for some time, slowly being restored.

Now the final resting place of prominent artists and musicians, it was originally founded to separate the rich from the poor in death.

The great American road trip, but smaller.

A perfect replica of the beloved show's first set.

This museum is dedicated to a Hollywood icon.

The abandoned ruins of America's first private zoo are open for exploration in the Catskills.

A hamlet full of permanent Christmas spirit holds one of the earliest theme parks in the United States.

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

A plaque immortalizes the spot where the early American spy said his famous last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

A memorial to the first person killed by a motor vehicle in the Western Hemisphere.

An unassuming nature trail winds through dozens of tiny houses built for the wee people.

Hundreds of numbered stakes hidden in the woods mark the graves of the lost souls of a nearby asylum.

Dozens of houses in the Adirondack Mountains are reminders of a literal "cottage industry" to cure people of a deadly disease.

The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.

The shared home of a utopian commune that practiced "free love" a century before the hippies.

Western New York's largest independent bookstore doubles as a historical repository of all things Niagara Falls.

This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.

The dairy farm in upstate New York where nearly half a million people gathered for three days of peace and music in 1969.

This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.

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

A six-story treehouse offers spectacular views of New York's Finger Lakes region.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.