Created by four famous men (Henry Hobson Richardson, Frederick Law Olmsted, Calvert Vaux and Thomas Story Kirkbride), the beautifully designed Buffalo State Asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center...but still boasts a ghost story or two!

The absurd creation is a compulsory destination for selfies in Buffalo.

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

This unique crypt designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his longtime friend was not completed in either man's lifetime.

This Buffalo museum hides an Art Deco gas station designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

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

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

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

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

This former hub for crafty philosophers was founded by a writer who died aboard the infamous RMS Lusitania.

This oversize piece of novelty cookware once cooked the largest pancake in the world.

Eclectic architecture in the woods of New York.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.