Nope, not Washington Irving's house.

This sprawling woodland estate was the brainchild of iconic American industrial designer Russel Wright.

This impressive mansion in Vinegar Hill has some mysterious details in its architecture.

Now the site of a high school, this was almost the location of the largest cathedral in the US.

The largest Buddha statue in the Western Hemisphere is just 50 miles north of NYC.

An arcade packed with a rotating collection of unique independent video games.

What remains of the simple red brick chapel where the women's rights movement began.

Final resting place of Typhoid Mary.

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

Twenty-three trees, each paired with a basalt stone, line a street in Chelsea, continuing an urban project started by German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys.

Explore the evolution of printing technology, from cuneiform to Kindle.

On this island, you suck away your garbage via an elaborate pneumatic tube system.

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

Now the final resting place of prominent artists and musicians, it was originally founded to separate the rich from the poor in death.

The only remaining building in New York to see the inauguration of a president is being slowly overtaken by a grocery store.

Tucked away on the second floor of a small town library is one of the great private Victorian taxidermy collections looking today very much like it did in 1909.

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

Western New York's largest independent bookstore doubles as a historical repository of all things Niagara Falls.

The site where Joe Gallo kept his guns, pet lion, and launched an all out mob war in 1960s Brooklyn.

Where the four original members of the Ramones hung out and revolutionized punk rock.

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

The Binghamton area is home to six of the last remaining hand-carved vintage carousels.

A well-worn marker in a forgotten alleyway is all that remains of what had been one of Manhattan's most beautiful buildings.

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