A Seussian sculpture made of brass instruments.

This mysterious marker puzzles pedestrians and infuriates geographers.

This two-room factory has been cranking out the musical signifier of zaniness for a century.

The site of William McKinley's tragic assassination is only marked by an underwhelming boulder.

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

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

The lost town of Neversink, sunk by New York City.

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

The original Uncle Sam was actually a New York meatpacker who is buried under this historic grave.

The oldest Dutch colonial stone house in New York City is a hidden gem on the border of Brooklyn and Queens.

This translucent sculpture represents a quintessential component of New York City's skyline.

One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.

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

A sewing machine tycoon built this miniature castle for the people and to beautify a lakeshore.

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

Haunted Victorian house that inspired a legendary "Ghostbusters" court ruling.

An abandoned subway tunnel that could have reinvigorated Staten Island still lies somewhere beneath this Brooklyn park.

This tiny little island has, as the name says, just enough room for its single house.

A millionaire's abandoned swimming pool from the gilded age of one of America's most distinguished families.

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

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

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

A perfect replica of the beloved show's first set.

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