This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

This extraordinary Depression-era expenditure was modeled after a postcard of a Mediterranean hotel.

The world's third-largest crystal sphere has sat in the Penn Museum since 1927 with the exception of one outlandish theft.

This Art Deco theater is the last remaining opera house in the “little Broadway of the North.”

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

Believed to be haunted, this old cemetery is beautifully adorned with Spanish moss hanging from the trees.

A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.

An abandoned underground bunker not far from downtown New Orleans.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

A memorial to the 1913 tragedy that helped protect the workers of the future.

The Binghamton area is home to six of the last remaining hand-carved vintage carousels.

A gazebo that inspired the fifth episode of the "Twilight Zone" still stands in the creator's hometown

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

A monument to the 17,000 Chinese who worked and died to build Canada's Pacific Railway.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

Niagara Falls holds a special place in Nikola Tesla's history, so they put a statue on it.

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

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

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

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

The remnants of a creative early method of wildfire prevention.