This manor in the woods memorializes one of the greatest birders of a generation.

One of the remaining markers of an era when Brooklyn and Flatbush were separate cities.

A plaque on a rock dedicated to a famous, forgotten author, and put in an impossible place.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

The final resting place of a former Dodgers and Mets player can be found in central Brooklyn, in the first diocesan cemetery for Catholics in the borough.

A series of fish plaques that are embedded in the malls of Ocean Parkway.

The Catskills retreat of naturalist writer John Burroughs.

The lesser-known Alice sculpture of Central Park dedicated to the “godmother of American children.”

A rusted blade sticks out from the trunk of this tree, left as a memorial to a young man who left to fight in the Civil War but never returned home.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.

This house was the subject of an Edward Hopper painting, which in turn helped inspire the design of the Bates house in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho.'

A small Second Empire-style building is one of only seven remaining lighthouses on the Hudson River.

Residents of this Brooklyn neighborhood may be unaware their houses sit atop a buried trolley graveyard.

The most unloved grain elevator in Brooklyn was a “Magnificent Mistake.”

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

This Central New York ghost town was once a prosperous railroad community.

This neighborhood grocery houses a treasure trove of Eastern European delights.

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

New York's oldest and possibly grandest keeper of books.

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