This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

A working metal shop and venue for outrageous art and music shows in a former cannonball factory.

This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

This sandstone gorge in New York State's Adirondack Mountains is home to waterfalls, flumes, and more.

Town full of spiritualists, some of whom are mediums, is still in full swing after 130 years.

A notorious punk house turned co-op.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

Discovered by cows, these upstate New York show caves are presented with a healthy dose of psychedelic folk art.

A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.

Comprehensive gaming collection of over 30,000 electronic games and consoles.

A six-story treehouse offers spectacular views of New York's Finger Lakes region.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.