Fossilized sea bottom and lime quarry.

All that remains of the once-booming chain is a single orange-roofed restaurant.

Eight whimsical acres of metal art.

A Wisconsin kitsch palace from the 1930s lives its second life in 21st-century Brooklyn.

The cuisine at this Sheepshead Bay spot tells the story of a displaced Muslim Chinese community.

A B.Y.O.B. Mexican cantina lives inside one of the last tortilla factories in Brooklyn.

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

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

Homemade rockets, dinosaurs, and robots make this New York small business much more than a furniture store.

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

This sprawling collection of saintly relics includes such fascinations as wood from the Cross of Jesus and threads from Mary's veil.

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

An exhibition space dedicated to American outsider art created between the 18th and 21st centuries.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

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

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

A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.

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

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

This oversize piece of novelty cookware once cooked the largest pancake in the world.

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

A Seussian sculpture made of brass instruments.

Oldest existing wire suspension bridge in the United States.

Manhattan and the Bronx have been playing tug-of-war over this former island neighborhood for more than a century.