Staten Island, New York
Sleight Family Graveyard
The final resting place of some of Staten Island's earliest settlers and their descendants.
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Ithaca, New York
Cornell Hip Hop Collection
This rare archive of original recordings and photos uncovers the early days of hip hop culture.
Troy, New York
Woodside
A man used his Civil War-era fortune to build this sanctuary in memory of his wife.
Yonkers, New York
Lenoir Preserve
A beautiful, historic location open to the public.
Kings Park, New York
St. Johnland Cemetery
This forgotten graveyard in rural New York State once served a pioneering hospital.
Chippewa Bay, New York
Singer Castle
This island castle contains enough secret passageways to support a season of Scooby-Doo episodes.
Granville, New York
The Pember Museum
Tucked away on the second floor of a small town library is one of the great private Victorian taxidermy collections looking today very much like it did in 1909.
Staten Island, New York
Alice Austen House
The pioneering photographer's prints are immortalized inside her childhood home.
Ithaca, New York
Ice Age Glacial Exhibit
This exhibit allows visitors to wander through the interior of a replica Ice Age glacial cave.
Oyster Bay, New York
Raynham Hall Museum
Spies, love letters, and ghost stories have all left their mark on this home-cum-museum.
Rochester, New York
Hutchison Hall Specimen Collection
Antique skeletons and taxidermy creatures were found crammed in a university closet.
Brooklyn, New York
Bay Ridge Gingerbread House
On the hills of Bay Ridge stands a house straight out of a fairy tale.
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Queens, New York
Cypress Hills Taxidermy Studio
One of the last taxidermists in New York City.
Brooklyn, New York
Taste the Tropics USA
In Little Caribbean, an ice-cream shop serves up regional flavors, including soursop, Irish moss, and "greatnut."
Keene Valley, New York
Lake Tear of the Clouds
Teddy Roosevelt’s famous “midnight ride to the presidency" started at this small lake high up in the Adirondacks.
Johnson City, New York
Carousel Capital of the World
The Binghamton area is home to six of the last remaining hand-carved vintage carousels.
Rochester, New York
Rochester Lilac Festival
One of the largest festivals of flowers in North America takes place, appropriately, in the Flower City.
Oneida, New York
Oneida Community Mansion House
The shared home of a utopian commune that practiced "free love" a century before the hippies.
Bronx, New York
Bartow-Pell Mansion
This old estate is a remnant of when the Bronx was a popular summer destination for wealthy New Yorkers.
Albany, New York
The Mummy Ankhefenmut
A CT scan revealed the identity of this 3,000-year-old mummy that everyone erroneously thought was female.
Rochester, New York
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery
A beautiful final resting place with some surprising residents.
Hartsdale, New York
Hartsdale Pet Cemetery
The first pet cemetery in the United States.
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Romulus, New York
Spud Chuckin'
Launch vegetables using oversized slingshots at this Fingerlakes winery's roadside attraction.
Oyster Bay, New York
The Hidden Colonial Cemeteries of Oyster Bay
Some of the earliest burial grounds of New York State are to be found hidden away in this quaint town.
