Even for Egyptian royalty, the afterlife was bring-your-own-beef.

A man used his Civil War-era fortune to build this sanctuary in memory of his wife.

An elaborate memorial to a man local legend says died of a broken heart.

Legendary private island in the Bronx...devoid of rats.

Depression-era fun lives on in this Harlem museum dedicated to the sport of the street.

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

Its original statue was deemed so ugly, locals called it “Scary Lucy.”

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.

Final resting place of Typhoid Mary.

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

The humble fort that saved Washington.

This giant monument of the RCA mascot is a beloved fixture in Albany, New York.

A fictional town that was briefly brought to life before fading once again out of existence.

For 20 years, local pumpkins have met their fate on the iron fence surrounding this Cobble Hill home.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

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

Monument to a forgotten NYC disaster that claimed the lives of 1,000.

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

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.

Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.

One of the only single-person private gravesites in New York City.

This Orthodox Church's exterior is rather unorthodox.

The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.

HBO series' stage tucked away in a Greenpoint lot is the largest theatrical set of its kind in the United States.