This miniature village stays behind in the Breuer Building, even as the museums around it come and go.

This picturesque cottage was the site of Ulysses S. Grant’s final and perhaps most important campaign.

A historical home in upstate New York honors the work of John W. Jones, a formerly enslaved man who was a major agent for the Underground Railroad.

Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.

After surviving abandonment, this powerful Latin American mural is alive again.

Learn about the last river many crossed to find freedom from slavery in the United States.

The only American museum exclusively dedicated to the exhibition of gloves.

This impressive scene portrays the elusive forest giraffe of Central Africa.

Take a trip back to the 1950s and the heyday of the road trip along Historic Route 20.

Thousands of bottles that have held everything from poison to perfume make up the collection of this small museum.

The return of something once considered a basic part of life.

The rare American Civil War-era weapon was never fired in anger.

A 10-foot-tall concrete Alley Oop statue left over from World War II now stands on the side of the road.

Where one of the worst train disasters in the country took place, leading to upgrades in rail safety.

Storage warehouse of the rich and famous.

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

This backwater graveyard in the Hamptons became a trendy burial spot and posthumous status symbol for famous artists.

A playground the size of a city block is a modernist monument to civic values and public housing.

This vessel is believed to be the oldest operating fireboat in the world.

A riverfront park that both remediated and preserved its industrial past.

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.

Headquarters of the world's fourth largest Hasidic sect and the first of many "770s" around the world.

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