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The colorful, glowing rocks of Sterling Hill

Ogdensburg, New Jersey

Fluorescent Rocks of Sterling Hill Mine

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

Batsto Village

Egg Harbor City, New Jersey

Batsto Village

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

Replica of the Rock of Amersfort

Brooklyn, New York

Replica of the Rock of Amersfort

A miniature version of a legendary Dutch boulder.

A white suspension bridge across a large river

Poughkeepsie, New York

Bridge Music

This sound-art installation features songs composed using only the Mid-Hudson Bridge as an instrument.

Old Fort Niagara

Youngstown, New York

Old Fort Niagara

This historic fort spans more the 300 years.

A plate of perfect beef momos.

Queens, New York

Amdo Kitchen

A former Tibetan monk made a name for himself selling some of the best beef momos in New York.

Franklin Avenue.

New York, New York

Aretha Franklin Subway Tributes

A touching tribute to the "Queen of Soul."

Grant's Cottage.

Wilton, New York

Ulysses S. Grant Cottage National Historic Landmark

This picturesque cottage was the site of Ulysses S. Grant’s final and perhaps most important campaign.

A view over the fort and the city of Rome.

Rome, New York

Fort Stanwix National Monument

An interesting look into 18th-century American history.

Mount Roosevelt Friendship Tower

Deadwood, South Dakota

Mount Roosevelt Friendship Tower

Seth Bullock, the sheriff of Deadwood, built this town immediately after Teddy Roosevelt’s death in 1919.

Harney Peak, The Highest Point in South Dakota

Keystone, South Dakota

Black Elk Peak

The highest point in South Dakota contains the ashes of Valentine McGillycuudy, the "Holy White Man."

Exterior of the building.

Niagara Falls, New York

Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center

Learn about the last river many crossed to find freedom from slavery in the United States.

A Son of the American Revolution, Alexander Milliner

Rochester, New York

Grave of George Washington's Drummer Boy

Alexander Milliner, a favorite of General Washington, is interred at Mt. Hope Cemetery along with 80 other Revolutionary War veterans.

The interior dining room with the glass-windowed kitchen.

Brooklyn, New York

Bamonte's

Dine on old-school red sauce fare at a former mob hang out and film set for The Sopranos.

DAR Plaque at the site

Tuxedo Park, New York

Sterling Lake Iron Works

The remains of the furnace and iron works that produced the massive Hudson River Chain still stand in the woods of New York.

Glenn H. Curtiss Aviation Museum

Hammondsport, New York

Glenn H. Curtiss Aviation Museum

Curtiss is a forgotten figure in the early history of flight.

The Boot Monument

Stillwater, New York

Boot Monument

A monument to the military service of America's greatest traitor refuses to even name him.

Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument.

Brooklyn, New York

Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument

This beautiful Brooklyn monument over a crypt memorializes a grim and largely unknown story from the American Revolution.

Martin Van Buren National Historic Site

Kinderhook, New York

Martin Van Buren National Historic Site

At this farm in upstate New York, the former president plotted his reelection campaign.

Rockefeller State Park Preserve's Glacial Erratic.

Pleasantville, New York

Glacial Erratic

This giant rock arrived at this quiet park thousands of years ago on the back of a massive glacier.

Cole Palen's N3221 rotary-powered Dr.I reproduction

Red Hook, New York

Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome

A living antique aviation museum in the historic town of Red Hook, New York.

Lockport Cave

Lockport, New York

Lockport Cave

Take an underground boat ride through a former hydraulic raceway that was built in the late 19th century.

Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site

Buffalo, New York

Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site

This restored house is like a time capsule of the president's unconventional inauguration.

Cleft Ridge Span

Brooklyn, New York

Cleft Ridge Span

This elaborate tunnel is the first structure composed of cast concrete in the United States.

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