Staten Island, New York
Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art
The collection is exhibited in a Staten Island building modeled on traditional Himalayan architecture.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Poughkeepsie, New York
Poughkeepsie Cast Iron Building (and Its Lego Model)
A building made mostly of cast iron features a 1:45 scale lego model of its self.
Poughkeepsie, New York
Bridge Music
This sound-art installation features songs composed using only the Mid-Hudson Bridge as an instrument.
Garrison, New York
Manitoga
This sprawling woodland estate was the brainchild of iconic American industrial designer Russel Wright.
New York, New York
Charlotte Temple’s Grave
A Manhattan tombstone honors a popular 19th-century heroine, now long forgotten.
New York, New York
Waldorf Astoria Archives
Long-forgotten artifacts give incredible insight into New York's most glamorous hotel.
New York, New York
Central Park Boathouse
With a history dating back to Victorian times, this architectural gem is a rare New York tourist haunt worth visiting.
New York, New York
Wavertree
After traveling the world, one of the last remaining fully-rigged three masted iron-hulled cargo ship in the world found its home in New York.
Monroe, New York
Kiryas Joel
Adherence to strict Jewish laws is required to enter this ultra-conservative New York village.
Monroe, New York
Rest Haven
Famed activist Hellen Keller was involved in the operation and administration of this vacation home for blind women starting in the early 20th century.
Brooklyn, New York
Grave of John Matthews: The Soda Fountain King
Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.
Brooklyn, New York
The Cyclone
A wooden rollercoaster that still delivers a thrill.
Brooklyn, New York
New York Sign Museum
A labor of love by laborers in the sign-making business.
Queens, New York
Caravan Chicken
This Peruvian-Chinese institution has perfected the art of rotisserie chicken—alongside plantains and lo mein.
Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn Seltzer Museum
Try an original egg cream at this museum located inside one of the last surviving old-fashioned seltzer factories in America.
New York, New York
Balto Statue
This monument is dedicated to Balto, the heroic Alaskan sled dog.
Carmel Hamlet, New York
New York's Chuang Yen Monastery
The largest Buddha statue in the Western Hemisphere is just 50 miles north of NYC.
Stony Point, New York
Old Letchworth Village Cemetery
Hundreds of numbered stakes hidden in the woods mark the graves of the lost souls of a nearby asylum.
Thiells, New York
Letchworth Village
Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.
New York, New York
'Dreams of Hyperion'
A unique collection of figures perform down the facade of the Gene Frankel Theatre.
New York, New York
Cole Porter's Piano
A famous songsmith's custom piano, dubbed "High Society," is hidden just out of sight in one of New York's finest hotels.
Brooklyn, New York
Urban Post-Disaster Housing Prototype
An interim housing alternative to FEMA trailers that is designed for densely populated areas during recovery and rebuilding following a natural disaster.
North Salem, New York
Balanced Rock
Glacial erratic or man-made dolmen? It probably wasn't druids.
South Salem, New York
Wolf Conservation Center
Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.
