Even if you're not an auto aficionado, the cars on display at the Saratoga Automobile Museum really catch the eye.

The fledgling American army wintering in harsh conditions nonetheless profited from the presence of Friedrich Von Steuben, a Prussian military officer. Before each soldier responded to the rules of his specific militia unit, Steuben insisted on standard training for everyone.

Along the narrow, twisting and uneven roads through the farm country of the Upper St. Lawrence River Valley lie many cabanes a sucre -- literally sugar shacks -- that offer home-cooked meals in a unique tradition that's still relatively obscure to many Americans.

Maurice "Rocket" Richard's popularity with hockey fans was so great that, when National Hockey League Commissioner Clarence Campbell suspended him for rough play during the 1955 season, fans rioted in the streets. Richard, himself, had to plead for calm.

In 1949, the first entirely solar home with no backup heat source was completed in Dover, Mass.

The Great Camp is the only man-made presence on the shores of pristine Newcomb Lake.

At the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, exhibits point out that not only southern plantation owners profited from slavery. The growth of northern industry and the development of railroad networks depended on the success of a cotton economy, too.

One new display at the Burlington museum is entitled "Actors and Exorcists: Masks of Sri Lanka." Used in dances and folk plays but also employed traditionally to cast out illness and disease, these masks are appealing and occasionally awe-inspiring.

The room in which Grey Nuns foundress Mother d'Youville lived from her arrival in 1747 until her death from a series of strokes in December 1771 remains intact.