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

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

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

Eclectic architecture in the woods of New York.

An unassuming nature trail winds through dozens of tiny houses built for the wee people.

This New York estate was designed to resemble a medieval Scottish castle.

A bar, burger joint, and arcade housed in a late 19th-century church building.

An antique cemetery in New York, this land is home to any number of famed corpses.

This narrow coastline trail through the dense Kauai wilderness is among the most beautiful and dangerous in the world.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

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

One of the largest festivals of flowers in North America takes place, appropriately, in the Flower City.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

A prehistoric landscape hidden in the cliffs of Maha'ulepu.

This blowhole is supposedly caused by a trapped monster.

This industrial area was the dumping ground for massive amounts of trash, some of which washes up as tiny bits of sea glass.

A once-glowing grotto at the bottom of Waikapalae Wet Cave.

Rochester's signature culinary delicacy.

The largest guitar store in the world has been visited by some of music's all-time greats passing through upstate New York.