This overlooked gem outside Niagara Falls preserves and celebrates Iroquois culture.

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

This humble historic facade hides a history of boozing and the gentlemanly sport of rat-fighting.

One of the largest festivals of flowers in North America takes place, appropriately, in the Flower City.

A small part of lower Manhattan is actually made from a bit of England.

A fire station-turned-church-turned-museum dedicated to the work of seminal light artist Dan Flavin.

Love is in the air along the small street in Brooklyn.

A working monastery hidden away in Brooklyn once abutted the location of a former inebriate's home.

A basement pool hall is the front for some of the best Dominican food in New York City.

Enter the deli, walk until you hit the taxidermy, then order some hot, homey guisado.

A large camera obscura, constructed entirely from digitally fabricated components.

This Buffalo museum hides an Art Deco gas station designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

This two-room factory has been cranking out the musical signifier of zaniness for a century.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

Despite not growing anywhere near New York City, bananas are ripened in a pressurized room in the Bronx using precise banana science.

Oldest existing wire suspension bridge in the United States.

The "Skinny House" is made from scrap, salvage, and a neighbor’s kindness.

A world of whimsy and wonder aboard a one of a kind historic landmark vessel.

Known as the "Forgotten City" it was home to industry, riots, artists, squatters, and to one of the largest single disaster fires in New York City.

This isolated community does not want you to visit.

This micro-industry of Latino cuisine along Red Hook's Ball Fields represents a victory in a food fight with the city.

A beautiful final resting place with some surprising residents.

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

Manhattan's Thirteenth Avenue was made on landfill then deliberately destroyed — apart from one small, obscure block.