The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

This tiny church near Sleepy Hollow contains Henri Matisse's last work, a rose window, and nine windows by Marc Chagall.

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

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

The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.

Rochester's signature culinary delicacy.

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

Comprehensive gaming collection of over 30,000 electronic games and consoles.

A collection of the best toys ever made, The National Toy Hall of Fame is filled with kids, fun, and for some reason, a bird preserve.

What may be Boston's finest Art Deco building, located in the city's Financial District.

This statue intended for children to enjoy became a minor political spat.

In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.

The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

Sacks of potatoes, made of cast stone, mark where the iconic potato sheds once stood along the river.

One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

This cabin survived a landslide that killed its owners.

A pair of black granite tails dive into a sea of grass in landlocked Vermont.

A 60-foot-tall tower provides unparalleled views of the southern Green Mountains.

Driftwood dinosaurs lurk within trees covered in a rainbow array of avian abodes.