Known as the "Kissing Bridge" for its privacy, it also happens to be the last covered bridge in Ontario.

This former hub for crafty philosophers was founded by a writer who died aboard the infamous RMS Lusitania.

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

In the mid-19th century, an eight-sided house was the latest fad.

A near tragic event on this bridge helped inspire the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life."

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

This peaceful gem in upstate New York was chosen as the future home of the 14th Dalai Lama's Library and Museum.

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

This oversize piece of novelty cookware once cooked the largest pancake in the world.

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

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

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

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

Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

The library of every book lover's dreams.

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

The oldest operating Mississippi River–style steamboat still navigates the Ohio River.

Moonbows over Kentucky.

The world's longest known cave system.

This high desert botanical garden is a unique display of New Mexico’s ecology and culture.

The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.