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The great American road trip, but smaller.

Pluto is still considered a planet in Ithaca, New York.

This throwback amusement park is home to rides and unique storybook figures from the past.

The floor-to-ceiling collection in an old factory is a unique alternative to stuffy galleries.

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

The home, museum, and death site of Kodak's influential founder.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

A collection of the best toys ever made inside a museum devoted to play.

This art center is way beyond your average pumpkin-carving operation.

This abandoned cemetery is crumbling into ruin, exposing the artifacts and bodies buried there.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

The remains of what was once the world's steepest passenger funicular.

World's largest herd of white deer populate a former U.S. Army depot.

An old dining hall now serves up ghost stories for lusty locals.

See wolves, coyotes, and arctic foxes in a natural environment smack in the middle of New York State.

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

Eclectic architecture in the woods of New York.

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

A 19th century hat factory still stands as a crumbling ruin in upstate New York.

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.

A mysterious echo seems to defy the laws of acoustics.

This sandstone gorge in New York State's Adirondack Mountains is home to waterfalls, flumes, and more.

Town full of spiritualists, some of whom are mediums, is still in full swing after 130 years.

Discovered by cows, these upstate New York show caves are presented with a healthy dose of psychedelic folk art.