A giant steel sculpture with animals in its shadows.

Alexander Milliner, a favorite of General Washington, is interred at Mt. Hope Cemetery along with 80 other Revolutionary War veterans.

For a buck, students can snag freshly picked apples grown in the university orchards.

This elaborate High Victorian Gothic structure is one of the world's few 16-sided buildings.

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

Curtiss is a forgotten figure in the early history of flight.

From this desk Al Hirschfeld drew his influential caricatures of the 20th century's Broadway stars.

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

No monkeying around, this fountain was really named after the classic sci-fi film.

Nearly four centuries after its founding, remnants of one of the oldest planned communities in North America are still visible in southern Brooklyn.

A well-worn marker in a forgotten alleyway is all that remains of what had been one of Manhattan's most beautiful buildings.

This fancifully decorated Victorian home in New York’s Hudson Valley is the only known fully domed octagonal residence in the United States.

A historic Black graveyard hidden in the parking lot of one of America's largest malls.

A man used his Civil War-era fortune to build this sanctuary in memory of his wife.

This restored house is like a time capsule of the president's unconventional inauguration.

The final resting place for the famed creator and narrator of "The Twilight Zone."

An elaborate memorial to a man local legend says died of a broken heart.

This eclectic sculpture garden in Brooklyn, home to a bizarre collection of art, was once a run-down junkyard.

The oldest continuously operating farm in New York State.

This forgotten graveyard in rural New York State once served a pioneering hospital.

A Seussian sculpture made of brass instruments.

Whale bones, scrimshaw, and sperm oil make up just a part of this comprehensive collection of whaling history.

Two mermen, eternally spitting into each other's mouths.

Tucked away on the second floor of a small town library is one of the great private Victorian taxidermy collections looking today very much like it did in 1909.