A historic lighthouse steeped in rumors of ghost and pirate stories.

Staten Island's original central park is the former home of the city water supply as well as thousands of immigrant graves.

Queen Anne style apartment house built in 1886.

A 13,000-year-old mastodon skeleton was found during the construction of a 19th-century New York mill.

Dozens of houses in the Adirondack Mountains are reminders of a literal "cottage industry" to cure people of a deadly disease.

Etchings in a pile of boulders on the Long Island Sound are a monument to vanquished native peoples.

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

If you were standing here on October 5th, 1950, you'd be dead.

This edgy museum will whet your appetite for the industrial history of Western New York.

Hidden behind a gate in Greenwich Village is a little farmhouse that once served as the writing studio of a bestselling author.

A large boulder marks the place where the island of Manhattan was purportedly "sold" to the Dutch.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

Genesis of modern hydroelectric power.

A giant steel sculpture with animals in its shadows.

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

In the mid-19th century, an eight-sided house was the latest fad.

This unusual subway stop was originally a real estate office.

Three gardens with toilets and urinals filled with bright flowers started as a protest against zoning rules.

Love is in the air along the small street in Brooklyn.

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

The second largest maple syrup producer in the U.S. runs a high-tech operation.

This landmark building is now a vibrant performing arts space with musical acts from around the world.

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

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