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

Created by four famous men, the beautifully designed Buffalo State Asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center, but still boasts a ghost story or two.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest—and favorite—architectural masterpieces was almost lost.

The seat of Buffalo government is a gorgeous Art Deco palace.

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

Buffalo's abandoned concrete grain elevators are getting a second life.

The site of William McKinley's tragic assassination is only marked by an underwhelming boulder.

The only boathouse Frank Lloyd Wright ever designed was also the only unbuilt structure in his famous Wasmuth Portfolio, until 2007.

Ruins of a once-prized railroad station in New York.

A 19th-century architectural wonder designed by the "father of the skyscraper."

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic’s missed arrival.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

This hidden oasis features a stunning view of the Hudson River and the Palisades from a castle-like museum.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

This is the sewer drain that was the inspiration for the opening scene of Stephen King’s classic novel “IT”.

In Tulsa's Oil Capital historic district, even the bus station is "fauxback" Art Deco.

A bronze statue of the famed Prussian naturalist commemorates the year he spent in Mexico.

A grand entrance to one of the world's smallest Chinatowns.

It's believed this golden brick is part of the legendary lost Aztec treasure.

The unique collection often goes unnoticed by visitors focused only on the archaeological objects.