This theater opened in 1998, but both the building and the puppeteers who perform there have a distinguished history.

A feminist who put a pretty face on suffrage when she rode a horse through the Capitol.

This backwater graveyard in the Hamptons became a trendy burial spot and posthumous status symbol for famous artists.

Of all the unique artifacts inside this library, a mummified hand stands out among the others.

The most radioactive spot in New York City can also fix your muffler.

The poet's been ambling through these New York woods since 1940.

Built in the 1920s, this co-op in the Bronx feels more like an Italian villa than a typical New York apartment building.

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

This unique house, the only one of its kind in Brooklyn, was built as part of a real estate developer's showcase.

The "last holdout of the Confederacy” actually sat at the edge of the Canadian border.

The small burial plot is located in a mall parking lot.

This sprawling taxidermy collection celebrates the art and history of sport hunting.

The private island of Yale's elite Skull & Bones society is kind of a dump.

Take a trip back to the 1950s and the heyday of the road trip along Historic Route 20.

Built as a home for the Union Porcelain magnate in 1867, now the Greenpoint Reformed Church and home to a ceramic mystery.

An unassuming stone building houses New York City's oldest seismic station almost 30 feet below the Bronx.

Etchings in a pile of boulders on the Long Island Sound are a monument to vanquished native peoples.

The highest rapid transit station in the world.

Where one of the worst train disasters in the country took place, leading to upgrades in rail safety.

A riverfront park that both remediated and preserved its industrial past.

An institution dedicated to the towering buildings that make up skylines in New York City and around the world.

Genesis of modern hydroelectric power.

Opened in 1947, this is the oldest continuously-operating drive-in theater in New York.

All that remains of one of the Civil War's more deadly POW camps is a simple flagstone.