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The last standing puppet theater on Long Island.

A 13,000-year-old mastodon skeleton was found during the construction of a 19th-century New York mill.

This island castle contains enough secret passageways to support a season of Scooby-Doo episodes.

An off the grid woodland retreat that harkens back to days long forgotten.

Even for Egyptian royalty, the afterlife was bring-your-own-beef.

A tree full of wishes and footwear.

Three gardens with toilets and urinals filled with bright flowers started as a protest against zoning rules.

This landmark building is now a vibrant performing arts space with musical acts from around the world.

Now the site of a high school, this was almost the location of the largest cathedral in the US.

This exhibit allows visitors to wander through the interior of a replica Ice Age glacial cave.

New York's oldest concrete structure is being preserved thanks to the gentrification of Whole Foods.

A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.

The flagship building of an early national restaurant chain is a superb example of terra cotta art.

This abandoned artificial island off the coast of New York City is now home to dozens of harbor seals.

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

Enormous one time fiber mill now houses local artists and small businesses.

Hidden behind a gate in Greenwich Village is a little farmhouse that once served as the writing studio of a bestselling author.

This preserved wilderness hides the remains of a colonial grain mill used to feed George Washington's troops.

The oldest continuously operating farm in New York State.

Fossilized sea bottom and lime quarry.

A mysterious statue of a leather jacket-clad rebel leans coolly on an odd yellow clock.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.

The second-largest (of only two in the world) large particle collider is the underdog of experimental physics.