In Little Caribbean, an ice-cream shop serves up regional flavors, including soursop, Irish moss, and "greatnut."

The studio of influential composer Charles Ives is perfectly reconstructed, hidden in the back of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

This exhibit allows visitors to wander through the interior of a replica Ice Age glacial cave.

On the hills of Bay Ridge stands a house straight out of a fairy tale.

Manhattan and the Bronx have been playing tug-of-war over this former island neighborhood for more than a century.

During the American Revolution, this mansion hosted failed peace talks between the British and Americans.

This giant monument of the RCA mascot is a beloved fixture in Albany, New York.

Its original statue was deemed so ugly, locals called it “Scary Lucy.”

Spies, love letters, and ghost stories have all left their mark on this home-cum-museum.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.

The former sign of this immortal music venue is just that--undying.

Depression-era fun lives on in this Harlem museum dedicated to the sport of the street.

This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.

Fossilized sea bottom and lime quarry.

Want to build a wind turbine? Secede from the nation.

Final resting place of Typhoid Mary.

Once thought to be the fabled Holy Grail, it is now known to be an oil lamp.

A Collegiate Gothic quadrangle that surrounds an 18th century secondary school whose financing came from the likes of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, among others.

The only surviving sidewalk clock in Brooklyn.

The humble fort that saved Washington.

One of the last taxidermists in New York City.

A mysterious statue of a leather jacket-clad rebel leans coolly on an odd yellow clock.

A memorial marks the library lobby where Langston Hughes' ashes are buried.