Ithaca, New York
Cayuga Nature Center
A six-story treehouse offers spectacular views of New York's Finger Lakes region.
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Ithaca, New York
A six-story treehouse offers spectacular views of New York's Finger Lakes region.
Alexandria Bay, New York
A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.
Rochester, New York
Comprehensive gaming collection of over 30,000 electronic games and consoles.
New York, New York
This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.
Buffalo, New York
The absurd creation is a compulsory destination for selfies in Buffalo.
Sleepy Hollow, New York
Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
New York, New York
Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.
Ithaca, New York
In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.
Bronx, New York
The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.
Orchard Park, New York
A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.
Haines Falls, New York
A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.
Cumberland, Maryland
Maryland's first (and last standing) toll house on America's first federal road established the state as the "Gateway to the West."
Big Pool, Maryland
A star fort along the C&O Canal in western Maryland that protected America in three wars.
Cumberland, Maryland
This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.
Baltimore, Maryland
George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.
Middletown, Maryland
Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.
Laurel, Maryland
This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.
Oldtown, Maryland
Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.
Lexington, Virginia
The hide of Stonewall Jackson's equine sidekick is on display not far from where the ashes of his bones are buried.
Chantilly, Virginia
At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.
Charlottesville, Virginia
The story behind the mysterious symbol painted in front of the historic university's famous Rotunda.
Lexington, Virginia
This campus chapel is Robert E. Lee's final resting place and a topic of debate about the legacy of the Civil War.
Charlottesville, Virginia
Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.
Arlington, Virginia
Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.