The site of a fallen tree that protected Americans from British forces during the American Revolution.

An experimental, community court opened in 2000 takes a new approach to youth offenders in south Brooklyn.

This stave church nestled in the Catskills was built in the 1960s by a community of Ukrainian immigrants and refugees.

The East Village tenement from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album has a tea shop on the ground floor.

Ornate "Renaissance Revival" style building.

Though the case is scorched and the buttons half-melted, this hardy handheld gaming device can still run a game of Tetris.

A small graveyard is hidden in the midst of a bustling university campus.

Now owned by the National Park Service, this location was once home to illegal boxing matches.

A remnant of the original World Trade Center complex continues to serve as a commuter gateway.

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

If it hadn't been caught in time, a flaw in the design of this Manhattan skyscraper could have led to its collapse.

An unprepossessing stone marks the last resting place of one of the most accomplished Native Americans in history.

This institution pays tribute to an associate justice who protected civil rights and prosecuted Nazis.

This unusual apartment building may be Brooklyn's own version of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Of all the unique artifacts inside this library, a mummified hand stands out among the others.

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

An allegedly haunted testament to a local businessman's desire for status, posterity, and charity.

This miniature village stays behind in the Breuer Building, even as the museums around it come and go.

Celebrating the greatest pugilists the world has ever known.

Take a trip back to the 1950s and the heyday of the road trip along Historic Route 20.

The first commercial nuclear power plant constructed on Long Island.

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

For a buck, students can snag freshly picked apples grown in the university orchards.

A 120-year oil leak slowly unleashes more gallons of oil than the Exxon/Mobil disaster.