An artist of the American Revolution is entombed beneath the Yale art gallery he founded.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

After decades of neglect, a brutalist icon is getting new life as an eco-friendly hotel.

What remains of the simple red brick chapel where the women's rights movement began.

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

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

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest—and favorite—architectural masterpieces was almost lost.

Created by four famous men, the beautifully designed Buffalo State Asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center, but still boasts a ghost story or two.

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

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

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

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

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

One of many reminders of Tesla's scientific contributions overlooks the falls which inspired him.

Western New York's largest independent bookstore doubles as a historical repository of all things Niagara Falls.

Quite possibly the last cross all humans will ever see.

In use from 1742 to 1910, only flat headstones were allowed in this cemetery.

One of the world's oldest continually operating bookstores.

A tribute to those that perished during the American Revolution.

George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and Benjamin Franklin all slept at this humble inn.

The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.

A former plant in one of the hubs of U.S. steelmaking has been turned into this museum celebrating the history of American industry.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.