The oldest continuously operating farm in New York State.

This outpost of America's most popular fast-food restaurant is housed inside a palatial mansion.

Spies, love letters, and ghost stories have all left their mark on this home-cum-museum.

Some of the earliest burial grounds of New York State are to be found hidden away in this quaint town.

The last standing puppet theater on Long Island.

Whale bones, scrimshaw, and sperm oil make up just a part of this comprehensive collection of whaling history.

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

One of the only single-person private gravesites in New York City.

This giant boulder is sandwiched between apartment complexes in upper Manhattan.

This recipe is set in stone.

Once thought to be the fabled Holy Grail, it is now known to be an oil lamp.

Hidden inside one of the world's most well-visited zoos is a secret plaque promising eternal life.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

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

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

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.

Oldest surviving example of a Dutch saltbox frame house in America.

The oldest living organism in New York City. Maybe.

This study room in the New York Public Library saw the creation of one of contemporary America's greatest traitors.

A plaque immortalizes the spot where the early American spy said his famous last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

Every year model trains zip through a miniature New York City that's now 150 landmarks strong.

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

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.