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Howes Cave, New York

A quirky show cave with painted signs and a waterfall roughly 100 feet tall underground.

Mount Tremper, New York

Walk inside a giant kaleidoscope for a mirrored light-and-music show.

Flanders, New York

A 1931 poultry shop shaped like a giant duck, complete with glass eyes and an orange bill.

Le Roy, New York

A small museum devoted to the wobbly dessert invented in Le Roy.

Le Roy, New York

A hulking, fenced-off steam shovel survives beside a country road.

Orchard Park, New York

A natural gas flame can flicker in a rocky alcove behind a waterfall.

Liverpool, New York

An entire museum devoted to the brine and salt works that shaped Syracuse.

Beacon, New York

A ruined castle on a Hudson River island was built to store military surplus.