Isn't that all geography is? ... at least if you do not look into what
those points are all about.
I agree that if you do not have the intellectual curiosity to delve
deeper into the area, it probably would be boring.
There probably are hundreds of videos about traveling the Erie Canal,
the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Seaway. I've watched more than a
few. This one, on the locks, was pretty good: