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

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

A uniquely lettered street sign marks the corner where the iconic word game was invented.

The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

An isolated beacon with a history of grisly murder and a view of some of literature's greatest inspirations.

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.

The life of one of FDR's possible mistresses is preserved in her palatial Hudson Valley mansion.

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

What happens here stays here – unless it affects the whole world.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

This sandstone gorge in New York State's Adirondack Mountains is home to waterfalls, flumes, and more.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.

Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.

An easy to overlook storefront hides some of the most authentic and regionally diverse Chinese food in New York.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

Visit the site of a subway powered by nothing more than air--and lots of it.

The library of every book lover's dreams.

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.