The only subway station in the city that still makes use of gap fillers.

An aptly-named street near the birthplace of the modern LGBT rights movement.

More than 350 million years ago, western New York was covered in a vast sea. Today, you can dig up the remains of the plants and animals that lived there.

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

Headquarters of the world's fourth largest Hasidic sect and the first of many "770s" around the world.

The highest rapid transit station in the world.

Nine nice parcels of land along a flight path offer a quiet respite... until a plane soars overhead.

Golden plates containing what would become the Book of Mormon were believed to be buried on this New York hillside.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

New York's oldest concrete structure is being preserved thanks to the gentrification of Whole Foods.

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

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

One of the deadliest American air disasters is nearly forgotten in Brooklyn.

This Frank Lloyd Wright summer house was designed along Lake Erie as a retreat for a client's wife.

This simple Manhattan salt house is artfully shaped... well, like a giant granule of salt.

A 19th-century architectural wonder designed by the "father of the skyscraper."

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

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

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

This Buffalo museum hides an Art Deco gas station designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

A field in which God and his son Jesus purportedly appeared to a young farm boy named Joseph Smith.

Red frames showcase remnants of one of New York's original subway stations.

The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.

A preserved factory in the "Home of the Carrousel" is now a museum dedicated to the classic wooden ride.