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Teddy Roosevelt’s famous “midnight ride to the presidency" started at this small lake high up in the Adirondacks.

Explore the evolution of printing technology, from cuneiform to Kindle.

What remains of the simple red brick chapel where the women's rights movement began.

The Binghamton area is home to six of the last remaining hand-carved vintage carousels.

A distillery built on (and above!) mobster Dutch Schultz's Prohibition-era underground moonshine business.

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

Amid the clacking of snooker balls, diners tuck into fiery Bhutanese fare.

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

The shared home of a utopian commune that practiced "free love" a century before the hippies.

This translucent sculpture represents a quintessential component of New York City's skyline.

2,000 barrels of aging beer hidden in a warehouse at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

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

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

Three stories above you, your salad is being grown.

This peaceful gem in upstate New York was chosen as the future home of the 14th Dalai Lama's Library and Museum.

This overlooked gem outside Niagara Falls preserves and celebrates Iroquois culture.

Now the final resting place of prominent artists and musicians, it was originally founded to separate the rich from the poor in death.

This humble historic facade hides a history of boozing and the gentlemanly sport of rat-fighting.

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

A small part of lower Manhattan is actually made from a bit of England.

A fire station-turned-church-turned-museum dedicated to the work of seminal light artist Dan Flavin.

Love is in the air along the small street in Brooklyn.

A working monastery hidden away in Brooklyn once abutted the location of a former inebriate's home.

A basement pool hall is the front for some of the best Dominican food in New York City.