A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

This shrine dedicated to the Virgin Mary is also a tribute from a mother to her fallen son.

Hundreds of protractors affixed to surfaces all over the city.

The "last holdout of the Confederacy” actually sat at the edge of the Canadian border.

A towering cemetery monument honors a man who threatened to expose the Freemasons and paid with his life.

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

The shared home of a utopian commune that practiced "free love" a century before the hippies.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

A Frankenstein blend of science and art allows one tree to produce 40 different types of stone fruit.

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

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.

A field in which God and his son Jesus purportedly appeared to a young farm boy named Joseph Smith.

Golden plates containing what would become the Book of Mormon were believed to be buried on this New York hillside.

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

The gravestone of the suffragist leader attracted extra visitors during the 2016 election.

A giant steel sculpture with animals in its shadows.

A masked wrestling legend has opened the first U.S. course devoted to a meditative Japanese golf variant.

This exhibit pays tribute to the “humble tinkerer” who invented the implantable pacemaker.

This restored house is like a time capsule of the president's unconventional inauguration.

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

Ruins of a once-prized railroad station in New York.

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