Magnificent New Deal Murals evoke a time when New York City harbor was one of the world's greatest and busiest ports.

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

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

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

You don't have to be an ambassador to dine like one.

This isolated community does not want you to visit.

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

Oldest existing wire suspension bridge in the United States.

This vacant church in the Financial District was once the heart of New York's first Syrian immigrant community.

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

A Seussian sculpture made of brass instruments.

Hundreds of numbered stakes hidden in the woods mark the graves of the lost souls of a nearby asylum.

A bronze ballot box stands at the spot where Susan B. Anthony voted illegally.

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

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

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

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

The site of William McKinley's tragic assassination is only marked by an underwhelming boulder.

A monument stands to the famous suffragist who penned the declaration for women's equal rights, including the right to vote.

The legendary court where emerging basketball players gain their street cred.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

This Manhattan museum houses one of the largest collections of Spanish art and manuscripts outside of Spain.

A replica of a 7th-century church hides in plain sight in the middle of the concrete jungle.

Believe It or Not, Ripley once called this chiseled mountainside “New York’s Mount Rushmore”.