The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

A hamlet full of permanent Christmas spirit holds one of the earliest theme parks in the United States.

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

The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.

This locally-famous crevasse in New York State is icy all year round.

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

The Vermont square that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."

Two distinctive homes on a New England village green look like a couple of frosted wedding cakes.

An upstate New York garage advertises its services by literally putting the automobile above all else.

A monument to the military service of America's greatest traitor refuses to even name him.

Two mermen, eternally spitting into each other's mouths.

The only American museum exclusively dedicated to the exhibition of gloves.

The largest known open fault in the United States is basically a giant natural refrigerator.

A mysterious echo seems to defy the laws of acoustics.

All that remains of the once-booming chain is a single orange-roofed restaurant.

This relic of 19th-century infrastructure is one of the few remaining coal gas storage tanks in the U.S.

A six-story treehouse offers spectacular views of New York's Finger Lakes region.

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

A journey through military artifacts and the history of Cortland.

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

A deteriorating 1990s Girl Scout camp in a beautiful lush park on Lake Ontario.

A carriage house converted into what resembles an 11th-century English manor house

A near tragic event on this bridge helped inspire the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life."

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.