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19 Waterfalls Along a Finger Lakes Gorge
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New York, beyond a single skyline
Explore New York City and New York State through parks, museums, gardens, architecture and historic places, with practical visiting tips and official sources.
Follow the water into the Finger Lakes, look closely in a museum, or find a garden within the city. Choose a place below to discover its story and plan your visit.
244 places
Storm King Art Center
What Happens When Sculpture Meets the Landscape?
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Central Park — Bethesda Terrace
Look Up: A Tile-Covered Detail in Central Park
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Ausable Chasm
Follow the Ausable River Through a Rock-Walled Chasm
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Boldt Castle
The Story Behind Boldt Castle on Heart Island
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Niagara Falls State Park
Meet the Three Falls at Niagara Falls State Park
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Corning Museum of Glass
One Material, Thousands of Years of Stories
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Letchworth State Park
Three Major Falls Along the Genesee River
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The Wild Center / Wild Walk
A Walk Above the Adirondack Forest
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American Museum of Natural History
Stand Beneath a 94-Foot Blue Whale
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Empire State Building
Two Observatories, One New York Landmark
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Taughannock Falls State Park
A 215-Foot Waterfall in the Finger Lakes
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Harriet Tubman National Historical Park
Harriet Tubman’s Chosen Home in Auburn
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National Comedy Center
Explore the Craft Behind the Laughs
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Martin Van Buren National Historic Site
Lindenwald: A Former President’s Hudson Valley Home
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Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site
Val-Kill: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Place in Hyde Park
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Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
The Buffalo House Where Theodore Roosevelt Took the Oath
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Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site
Springwood: Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Hyde Park Home
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Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site
A Gilded Age Country House Above the Hudson
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Thomas Cole National Historic Site
Where the Hudson River School Took Shape
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Adirondack Experience
The Adirondacks, Told Through Objects and Places
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden
A Garden Built for the City
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Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
Theodore Roosevelt’s Home on Long Island
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African Burial Ground National Monument
Remembering the African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan
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Castle Clinton National Monument
A Fort with Many Lives at Manhattan’s Tip
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Federal Hall National Memorial
Where George Washington Took the First Presidential Oath
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Hamilton Grange National Memorial
Alexander Hamilton’s Harlem Heights Home
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Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Everyday Stories Inside a Lower East Side Tenement
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Dia Beacon
A Factory Filled with Daylight
Discover this place →Statue of Liberty
A Monument That Crossed the Atlantic
Discover this place →Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
Before the Presidency, a Manhattan Childhood
Discover this place →Fort Stanwix National Monument
A Fort at the Oneida Carry
Discover this place →National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
Baseball History Beyond the Scoreboard
Discover this place →Saratoga National Historical Park
Read the Landscape of Saratoga
Discover this place →Saratoga Spa State Park
Mineral Springs and Historic Architecture
Discover this place →Women’s Rights National Historical Park
Seneca Falls and the Declaration of Sentiments
Discover this place →Fire Island National Seashore
Beyond the Beach at Fire Island
Discover this place →Saint Paul’s Church National Historic Site
An Eighteenth-Century Church in Mount Vernon
Discover this place →Ellis Island
The Stories Behind an Arrival
Discover this place →Gateway National Recreation Area — New York Focus
A Different Side of New York Harbor
Discover this place →Governors Island National Monument
Two Forts and a Harbor Story
Discover this place →Stonewall National Monument
Christopher Park and the History Around It
Discover this place →Upper Delaware Scenic & Recreational River — New York Focus
A River Corridor Shared by Communities
Discover this place →Hunter Mountain Resort
Plan a Catskills Ski Day
Discover this place →General Grant National Memorial
A Place of Remembrance Above the Hudson
Discover this place →Olana State Historic Site
A Landscape Composed by a Painter
Discover this place →George Eastman Museum
Photography, Cinema, and a Rochester Estate
Discover this place →Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
A Museum Building with Its Own Story
Discover this place →Intrepid Museum
A Museum Anchored by an Aircraft Carrier
Discover this place →The Metropolitan Museum of Art — Fifth Avenue Focus
Choose a Thread Through The Met
Discover this place →Old Fort Niagara
Where a River Meets a Great Lake
Discover this place →Fort Ticonderoga
A Lake Champlain History Stop
Discover this place →Brooklyn Bridge
A Crossing with a Long History
Discover this place →New York Botanical Garden
A Bronx Landscape for Looking Closely
Discover this place →The Strong National Museum of Play
Play Has a History
Discover this place →Buffalo AKG Art Museum
Art at the Edge of Delaware Park
Discover this place →Whitney Museum of American Art
An American Art Conversation
Discover this place →Museum of the Moving Image
Look Behind the Screen
Discover this place →The High Line
A Railway Reimagined
Discover this place →Brooklyn Bridge Park
Follow the Brooklyn Waterfront
Discover this place →Louis Armstrong House Museum
A Jazz Story at Home in Queens
Discover this place →New York State Museum
A State’s Stories in Albany
Discover this place →Howe Caverns
A Landscape Below Ground
Discover this place →Saratoga Automobile Museum
Automotive Stories in a Former Bottling Plant
Discover this place →The Frick Collection
A Collection with a Home
Discover this place →The Noguchi Museum
Space to Notice Sculpture
Discover this place →Bronx Zoo
A Bronx Story of Wildlife
Discover this place →Queens Museum
New York at Another Scale
Discover this place →New York Transit Museum
Below the Street, Inside the Story
Discover this place →Hudson River Museum
A River, A House, A Wider View
Discover this place →Boscobel House
A House in the Hudson Landscape
Discover this place →Vanderbilt Museum, Mansion & Planetarium
An Estate Looking Toward the Bay
Discover this place →Great Camp Sagamore
Built with the Forest in Mind
Discover this place →Singer Castle
A Castle on Dark Island
Discover this place →The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
A New Way of Looking
Discover this place →Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Everyday Objects, New Questions
Discover this place →Lyndhurst Mansion
Gothic Lines Above the Hudson
Discover this place →Sonnenberg Gardens & Mansion State Historic Park
A Garden of Many Influences
Discover this place →Seward House Museum
Public History, Private Rooms
Discover this place →Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Museum
Behind a Familiar Laugh
Discover this place →Parrish Art Museum
Art with an East End Perspective
Discover this place →Everson Museum of Art
Sculptural Thinking in Syracuse
Discover this place →Walkway Over the Hudson State Historic Park
A Railway Becomes a River Walk
Discover this place →Montauk Point Lighthouse & Museum
A Landmark at Long Island’s Edge
Discover this place →Munson
Two Settings for Art
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New Ideas in an Old School
Discover this place →Roberson Museum
Several Paths Through Binghamton
Discover this place →Erie Canal Museum
A Building That Weighed Boats
Discover this place →Fenimore Art Museum
Many Ways to Tell a Story
Discover this place →Fenimore Farm
The Buildings of Everyday Life
Discover this place →Hanford Mills Museum
Follow the Power of Water
Discover this place →Old Westbury Gardens
A Country Estate with a Public Future
Discover this place →Planting Fields Arboretum
Read a Landscape in Layers
Discover this place →SUMMIT One Vanderbilt
A Different Frame for the Skyline
Discover this place →Locust Grove Historic Site
A Hudson River Estate in Layers
Discover this place →Burchfield Penney Art Center
Western New York Through Artists’ Eyes
Discover this place →The Museum at Bethel Woods
Beyond the Festival Poster
Discover this place →Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
A Campus Stop for Close Looking
Discover this place →Neuberger Museum of Art
Art at the Heart of a Campus
Discover this place →The Paley Museum
The Stories Behind the Broadcasts
Discover this place →National Museum of the American Indian — New York
Native Voices in Lower Manhattan
Discover this place →New York Aquarium
New York Has an Ocean Story
Discover this place →Aquarium of Niagara
Follow the Water into Science
Discover this place →Bannerman Castle
A Castle Shape with an Industrial Past
Discover this place →Albany Institute of History & Art
The Hudson Valley in Objects and Images
Discover this place →USS SLATER
Naval History at River Level
Discover this place →Historic Cherry Hill
One House, Many Unequal Lives
Discover this place →Underground Railroad Education Center
Albany’s History of Working for Freedom
Discover this place →Alfred Ceramic Art Museum
A World Shaped in Clay
Discover this place →The Bronx Museum
Contemporary Art with a Bronx Address
Discover this place →Edgar Allan Poe Cottage
A Writer’s Home in the Bronx
Discover this place →Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum
Greek Revival in a Bronx Landscape
Discover this place →Phelps Mansion Museum
A Gilded Age Stop in Binghamton
Discover this place →Roger Tory Peterson Institute
Looking at Nature Through Art
Discover this place →Cayuga Museum of History and Art
When Pictures Found Their Voice
Discover this place →Howland Stone Store Museum
A Village Connected to Reform
Discover this place →Chemung Valley History Museum
Begin with Elmira’s Local Stories
Discover this place →National Soaring Museum
The Story of Flight Without an Engine
Discover this place →Northeast Classic Car Museum
New York on Wheels
Discover this place →Kent-Delord House Museum
Family History in Plattsburgh
Discover this place →The 1890 House Museum
A Mansion and the Work Behind It
Discover this place →Hessel Museum of Art
See How an Exhibition Makes Meaning
Discover this place →Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome Museum
The Craft of Early Flight
Discover this place →Mid-Hudson Discovery Museum
Let Curiosity Lead in Poughkeepsie
Discover this place →The Rockwell Museum
New Stories in a Former City Hall
Discover this place →Glenn H. Curtiss Museum
From Motorcycles to Early Flight
Discover this place →Finger Lakes Boating Museum
The Lakes Through Their Boatbuilders
Discover this place →Museum of the Earth
Read the Past in Stone
Discover this place →Sciencenter
A Question You Can Try Out
Discover this place →Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
Follow Art Across Places
Discover this place →Cayuga Nature Center
Look Closely Along the Trail
Discover this place →The Hyde Collection
A Collection That Began at Home
Discover this place →U.S. Grant Cottage
The Place Where a Memoir Took Shape
Discover this place →National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame
Saratoga Beyond the Finish Line
Discover this place →Tang Teaching Museum
Art That Starts a Conversation
Discover this place →Mabee Farm Historic Site
A Farm Along the Mohawk, Many Lives Behind It
Discover this place →Old Stone Fort Museum
A Church, a Fort, a County's Stories
Discover this place →Gilboa Museum and Juried History Center
Deep Time Meets Local Memory
Discover this place →National Women's Hall of Fame
Lives That Expanded What Was Possible
Discover this place →It's a Wonderful Life Museum
A Classic Film, a Town's Lasting Affection
Discover this place →National Memorial Day Museum
How a Community Remembers
Discover this place →Sodus Bay Lighthouse Museum
A Lighthouse Lens on Sodus Bay
Discover this place →Water Mill Museum
Where Water Powered Everyday Work
Discover this place →Long Island Museum
Long Island Through Art and Carriages
Discover this place →The Heckscher Museum of Art
Give Huntington an Artful Pause
Discover this place →Guild Hall
The East End, Seen and Heard
Discover this place →The Whaling Museum & Education Center
A Harbor's History, an Ocean's Questions
Discover this place →Sag Harbor Whaling and Historical Museum
Objects That Keep a Village's Memory
Discover this place →South Fork Natural History Museum and Nature Center
Learn to Look Like a Naturalist
Discover this place →American Airpower Museum
Aviation History Where Aircraft Were Built
Discover this place →Jones Beach Energy & Nature Center
Read the Beach Through Energy
Discover this place →Cradle of Aviation Museum
Long Island's Story of Flight
Discover this place →Raynham Hall Museum
A Household Across Two Centuries
Discover this place →Garvies Point Museum
Read Long Island in Stone and Artifacts
Discover this place →Brooklyn Museum
Many Worlds, One Artful Brooklyn Stop
Discover this place →Brooklyn Children's Museum
Let Curiosity Set the Pace
Discover this place →Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
Queer Art, Expanding the Conversation
Discover this place →The City Reliquary
New York in the Things People Keep
Discover this place →The Waterfront Museum
A Museum Aboard a Working Harbor's Past
Discover this place →Lefferts Historic House
Whose Stories Does a Historic House Tell?
Discover this place →American Folk Art Museum
Creativity Beyond a Single Path
Discover this place →Museum of Arts and Design
Look at What Materials Can Become
Discover this place →Museum of the City of New York
Meet the City Behind the Skyline
Discover this place →El Museo del Barrio
Art, Identity, and El Barrio
Discover this place →International Center of Photography
Look Again at the Photographic Image
Discover this place →Jackie Robinson Museum
A Legacy Beyond the Ballpark
Discover this place →Fraunces Tavern Museum
Revolutionary History Above Pearl Street
Discover this place →Merchant's House Museum
Domestic Life Behind a City Door
Discover this place →Museum of Jewish Heritage
Make Space for Testimony and Memory
Discover this place →Museum at Eldridge Street
A Synagogue and the Story of Arrival
Discover this place →Museum of Chinese in America
Many Lives Within Chinese American History
Discover this place →Neue Galerie New York
A Focused Window on European Modernism
Discover this place →National Jazz Museum in Harlem
Listen for Harlem's Jazz Connections
Discover this place →Dyckman Farmhouse Museum
Remembering Manhattan's Rural Lives
Discover this place →Memorial Art Gallery
A World of Art in Rochester
Discover this place →Rochester Museum & Science Center
Follow a Question Through Rochester
Discover this place →National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House
A Rochester Home at the Heart of Reform
Discover this place →Rochester Contemporary Art Center
Art as a Local Conversation
Discover this place →Seneca Park Zoo
A Rochester Visit With Conservation in Mind
Discover this place →Roycroft Campus
Craftsmanship With a History
Discover this place →JELL-O Gallery
A Familiar Dessert With a Local Backstory
Discover this place →Holland Land Office Museum
Begin With Batavia's Local Record
Discover this place →Seneca-Iroquois National Museum
Learn Through Seneca Cultural Memory
Discover this place →Lake Placid Olympic Museum
The Games Behind a Mountain Town's Identity
Discover this place →The Noble Maritime Collection
A Harbor Seen Through an Artist's Life
Discover this place →Staten Island Museum
An Island Through Art, Science, and History
Discover this place →National Lighthouse Museum
The Knowledge Behind a Guiding Light
Discover this place →Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art
Tibetan Art in a Staten Island Setting
Discover this place →Conference House
A Place Where Peace Was Discussed
Discover this place →Katonah Museum of Art
A Museum Built Around Changing Perspectives
Discover this place →Oneida Community Mansion House
A House Built Around a Social Experiment
Discover this place →International Boxing Hall of Fame
Boxing's Past in Canastota
Discover this place →Arkell Museum
American Art With Canajoharie Roots
Discover this place →Slate Valley Museum
The Stone That Shaped a Community
Discover this place →Robert H. Treman State Park
Follow the Stone Through Enfield Glen
Discover this place →Buttermilk Falls State Park
A Cascade With a Woodland Beyond
Discover this place →Stony Brook State Park
A Gorge Among Western New York's Hills
Discover this place →Chittenango Falls State Park
A Waterfall Written Into Bedrock
Discover this place →Fillmore Glen State Park
A Narrow Glen, Many Details
Discover this place →Pixley Falls State Park
A Waterfall Framed by Wooded Hills
Discover this place →Whetstone Gulf State Park
A Gorge at the Edge of Tug Hill
Discover this place →Chimney Bluffs State Park
A Different Edge of Lake Ontario
Discover this place →Green Lakes State Park
Two Lakes With a Deeper Story
Discover this place →Clark Reservation State Park
An Ice-Age Story Close to the Trail
Discover this place →Minnewaska State Park Preserve
Lakes and Ledges on the Shawangunk Ridge
Discover this place →Bear Mountain State Park
Mountains Rising Beside the Hudson
Discover this place →Harriman State Park
Choose Your Own Piece of Harriman
Discover this place →Sterling Forest State Park
A Forest With More Than Scenery to Offer
Discover this place →Clarence Fahnestock Memorial State Park
Make Room for a Hudson Valley Outdoors Day
Discover this place →Rockefeller State Park Preserve
Follow the Carriage Roads
Discover this place →Nyack Beach State Park
Spend Time Along the Hudson's Edge
Discover this place →Moreau Lake State Park
A Lake Within a Larger Woodland
Discover this place →Peebles Island State Park
Where Two Rivers Meet
Discover this place →Thacher State Park
Read the Helderberg Escarpment
Discover this place →Hither Hills State Park
Montauk Beyond a Single Beach View
Discover this place →Orient Beach State Park
A North Fork Shore With Many Habitats
Discover this place →Wildwood State Park
Hardwood Forest Above the Sound
Discover this place →Sunken Meadow State Park
A Boardwalk With the Sound Beside It
Discover this place →Connetquot River State Park Preserve
Follow a River Through Protected Habitat
Discover this place →Caleb Smith State Park Preserve
A Smithtown Pause for Close Observation
Discover this place →Hallock State Park Preserve
A North Shore Walk With Room to Notice
Discover this place →Shadmoor State Park
Montauk's Bluffs and Open Ground
Discover this place →Caumsett State Historic Park Preserve
A Peninsula of Woodland and Estate History
Discover this place →Bayard Cutting Arboretum
Let the Trees Lead the Visit
Discover this place →Keuka Lake State Park
A Finger Lakes View Worth Pausing For
Discover this place →Sampson State Park
Seneca Lake From Its Eastern Shore
Discover this place →Seneca Lake State Park
Leave Space for a Lakefront Picnic
Discover this place →Chenango Valley State Park
Two Lakes With an Ice Age Story
Discover this place →Lake Taghkanic State Park
A Lake Among Columbia County's Hills
Discover this place →Wellesley Island State Park
Look Beyond the Thousand Islands Panorama
Discover this place →Kring Point State Park
Between Goose Bay and the St. Lawrence
Discover this place →Point au Roche State Park
Follow the Habitats Toward Lake Champlain
Discover this place →Fair Haven Beach State Park
Lake Ontario With a Woodland Backdrop
Discover this place →Hamlin Beach State Park
Add a Marsh Walk to the Beach Day
Discover this place →Wave Hill
A Bronx Garden Above the Hudson
Discover this place →Untermyer Park and Gardens
Follow the Geometry of the Walled Garden
Discover this place →Queens Botanical Garden
A Garden With World's Fair Roots
Discover this place →Socrates Sculpture Park
Let the Waterfront Change How You See Art
Discover this place →Prospect Park Zoo
Make a Brooklyn Day About Animal Observation
Discover this place →Staten Island Zoo
Give Reptiles a Closer Look
Discover this place →New York Hall of Science
Make Room for a Question You Can Test
Discover this place →Central Park Zoo
Think About Habitats in the Heart of Manhattan
Discover this place →Queens Zoo
Explore Wildlife of the Americas in Queens
Discover this place →Queens County Farm Museum
Find a Farming Story Within New York City
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