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One of many reminders of Tesla's scientific contributions overlooks the falls which inspired him.

A tunnel that brings more than a century of history to life from the deepest parts of the Niagara Gorge.

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

A preserved factory in the "Home of the Carrousel" is now a museum dedicated to the classic wooden ride.

More than 350 million years ago, western New York was covered in a vast sea. Today, you can dig up the remains of the plants and animals that lived there.

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

A forsaken wonder in the middle of the East Side neighborhood.

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.

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

A monument honoring those who died in the Great Famine of Ireland.

The absurd creation is a compulsory destination for selfies in Buffalo.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

The great American road trip, but smaller.

It wouldn't be long after purchasing this farm, Brown would lead his siege on Harper's Ferry.

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

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

Walk over a 150 year old manhole.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

Along the Palisades skyline are the ruins of a large mansion built in 1911 and demolished in the 1930s.

This crumbling little graveyard was saved from the undergrowth by concerned veterans.

The remains of the furnace and iron works that produced the massive Hudson River Chain still stand in the woods of New York.

A stone circle on the slopes of a Caribbean volcano commemorates the leader of an anti-slavery uprising.

At first glance, little checkered structures on the hillside look like they house the living, not the dead.