Fossilized sea bottom and lime quarry.

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

This Upper East Side apartment co-op was designed as a tuberculosis sanitarium.

This family-owned bakery is one of the last places in Brooklyn to sell the Nation of Islam–inspired bean pie.

The shared home of a utopian commune that practiced "free love" a century before the hippies.

Once thought to be the fabled Holy Grail, it is now known to be an oil lamp.

Launch vegetables using oversized slingshots at this Fingerlakes winery's roadside attraction.

Abandoned rock quarry now a haven for mountain bikers and hikers.

Legendary private island in the Bronx...devoid of rats.

A garment factory hides a small Dominican eatery in the hallway to its freight elevator.

Magnificent New Deal Murals evoke a time when New York City harbor was one of the world's greatest and busiest ports.

You must take the A train... to the last active cemetery in Manhattan.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

The schoolhouse where Jesse Merwin, the inspiration for the "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" character, once taught.

A memorial marks the library lobby where Langston Hughes' ashes are buried.

One of the only single-person private gravesites in New York City.

A beautiful multicolored mound formed by the mineral deposits of the Orenda Spring.

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

Reforestation in action is the main attraction in this abandoned quarry.

The final resting place of Harriet Tubman and other famous historical figures.

The mosaic Star of David at the front of this store hints that it's no ordinary Italian grocer.