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

Home to some of the last true noodle artisans in New York.

A mosaic made of materials gathered from this Brooklyn community adorns the walls of this tunnel.

These century-old townhouses contain some of the first car garages built in the United States.

This memorial in the Adirondack wilderness honors the accidental death of a Scottish entrepreneur.

This sprawling taxidermy collection celebrates the art and history of sport hunting.

The "last holdout of the Confederacy” actually sat at the edge of the Canadian border.

The French deconstructionist had a weakness for baked goods.

If you were standing here on October 5th, 1950, you'd be dead.

Etchings in a pile of boulders on the Long Island Sound are a monument to vanquished native peoples.

An activist who committed her life to peace and women's suffrage.

A retired oil tanker now offering amazing views of New York City.

This recently uncovered ad for Lindsay's run at Mayor in 1965 had been hiding for decades underneath a billboard.

All that remains of one of the Civil War's more deadly POW camps is a simple flagstone.

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

This edgy museum will whet your appetite for the industrial history of Western New York.

The East Village tenement from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album has a tea shop on the ground floor.

Take an underground boat ride through a former hydraulic raceway that was built in the late 19th century.

Curtiss is a forgotten figure in the early history of flight.

Golden plates containing what would become the Book of Mormon were believed to be buried on this New York hillside.

Once a dumping spot, now a park with a kayak launch.

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

While it now takes more than a dime to open an account this historic Brooklyn bank still displays the opulence of the gilded age in which it was built.

This restored house is like a time capsule of the president's unconventional inauguration.