Ithaca, New York
Cayuga Nature Center
A six-story treehouse offers spectacular views of New York's Finger Lakes region.
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Brooklyn, New York
Lesbian Herstory Archives
The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.
Port Jervis, New York
The Hawks Nest
A winding, cliffside stretch of road overlooking the Delaware River.
New York, New York
The Burns Archive
A staggering collection of photographs depicting medical, social, and historical change.
Queens, New York
Calvary Cemetery
Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.
New York, New York
Bluestockings Bookstore
New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.
Brooklyn, New York
Newtown Creek Nature Walk
Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.
Brooklyn, New York
Mill Basin Kosher Delicatessen
Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.
Parksville, New York
Parksville
This Central New York ghost town was once a prosperous railroad community.
Wingdale, New York
Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center
An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.
New York, New York
The Forgotten Entrance to Clinton Hall
Hidden in one of New York's oldest subway stations is the final remnant of the site of the bizarre Shakespeare Riots.
Chatham, New York
Taconic Sculpture Park
Three acres of mythology-inspired sculptures are visible from the highway.
Queens, New York
Brooklyn Grange Farms and Apiary
Two New York rooftops are home to the largest rooftop soil farms in the world.
New York, New York
Poster House Museum
The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.
Syracuse, New York
Tree of 40 Fruit
A Frankenstein blend of science and art allows one tree to produce 40 different types of stone fruit.
South Salem, New York
Wolf Conservation Center
Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.
New York, New York
Museum at Eldridge Street
America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.
New York, New York
The Wishbones of McSorley's Old Ale House
Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.
Brooklyn, New York
Coney Art Walls
This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.
Nyack, New York
Clausland Mountain Tunnels
These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.
Brooklyn, New York
Spectacle Theater
A no-frills cinephile haven known for showing offbeat, underseen films.
New York, New York
Russian and Turkish Baths Cafe
Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.
Brooklyn, New York
Calvert Vaux Cove
This small, hidden cove is home to abandoned boats.
Brooklyn, New York
David's Brisket House
A Jewish deli run by Yemeni Muslims in an Afro-Caribbean neighborhood is quintessential Brooklyn.
