The Underground Railroad passed right through this historic Brooklyn Heights church.

One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.

This lovely little pond is named after the hundreds of soldiers' corpses that were rolled into the waters during the French-Indian War.

An antique cemetery in New York, this land is home to any number of famed corpses.

The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.

"Call for the doctor, call for the nurse... Vote!! said the lady with the alligator purse."

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

This abandoned ironworks was once the most important military supplier in America.

Pluto is still considered a planet in Ithaca, New York.

The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.

A remnant from the golden age of aviation still in use today, Pan Am's Clipper service took off from this Art Deco gem.

The dairy farm in upstate New York where nearly half a million people gathered for three days of peace and music in 1969.

The gravestone of the suffragist leader attracted extra visitors during the 2016 election.

One of many reminders of Tesla's scientific contributions overlooks the falls which inspired him.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

Pulled from the rubble of one of the worst modern tragedies, a steel crossbeam became a symbol of hope for New Yorkers.

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

The last living thing to come out of the rubble after 9/11 is now a symbol of hope and resilience.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

See wolves, coyotes, and arctic foxes in a natural environment smack in the middle of New York State.

The largest known open fault in the United States is basically a giant natural refrigerator.