Lehigh Valley barge No. 79 still gets tugged along - but now it houses a museum and unusual performances.

A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.

Teddy Roosevelt’s famous “midnight ride to the presidency" started at this small lake high up in the Adirondacks.

An unassuming island in the middle of the Hudson that hosts campers, including Aleister Crowley.

Built just after the American Revolution, the oldest row house in New York City still stands in Chinatown.

Spies, love letters, and ghost stories have all left their mark on this home-cum-museum.

The only surviving sidewalk clock in Brooklyn.

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

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

A hamlet full of permanent Christmas spirit holds one of the earliest theme parks in the United States.

This simple Manhattan salt house is artfully shaped... well, like a giant granule of salt.

This neo-Gothic former auto showroom is one of the few remaining reminders of Brooklyn's "Automobile Row."

This unique crypt designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his longtime friend was not completed in either man's lifetime.

A distillery built on (and above!) mobster Dutch Schultz's Prohibition-era underground moonshine business.

A prized globe signed by Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh sits in the Brooklyn office of the American Geographical Society.

At this hidden studio, the dying art of taxidermy is alive and well.

The oldest continuously operating farm in New York State.

A gazebo that inspired the fifth episode of the "Twilight Zone" still stands in the creator's hometown

This micro-industry of Latino cuisine along Red Hook's Ball Fields represents a victory in a food fight with the city.

Want to build a wind turbine? Secede from the nation.

The summit Roosevelt conquered before he descended to become The Chief.

The second-largest (of only two in the world) large particle collider is the underdog of experimental physics.

A former seaside jewel built for the everyman is now simply a neglected art deco fortress.

This isolated community does not want you to visit.