National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
Meet baseball's honorees, then follow the artifacts and harder stories that shaped the game beyond the diamond.
Places and wildlife — page 70
Browse Explore’s field guide to destinations, wildlife, art, and the natural world. Open a discovery for practical details and background.
Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration
Enter the vast Registry Room, then trace how federal inspection shaped millions of immigrant journeys.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Move from seasonal borders to an early Japanese hill-and-pond landscape designed to reveal itself step by step.
Taughannock Falls State Park
Choose a high overlook or follow the gentle gorge path to see the same waterfall from below.
Adirondack Experience, The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake
Explore boats, logging, art, and everyday life across an open-air museum above Blue Mountain Lake.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
Read the Depression, New Deal, war, and the Roosevelts' public lives through preserved records and objects.
George Eastman Museum
Explore Eastman's historic mansion, changing photography galleries, and a theater devoted to film preservation.
Harriet Tubman National Historical Park
Visit the church where Tubman worshiped, then connect her freedom work to the community she built in Auburn.
Brook Trout
Follow this jewel-colored char from shaded headwaters to Adirondack ponds, where water quality shapes its future.
Common Snapping Turtle
A rugged freshwater turtle is easiest to notice when it leaves the water to nest, not while it lies hidden below.
Nine-spotted Lady Beetle
New York's state insect once seemed ordinary; finding its precise pattern now demands care and a little luck.
Sugar Maple
Recognize New York's state tree by more than its color: bark, paired buds, and leaf shape tell the whole story.
Whitney Museum of American Art
Follow American art from gallery to skyline in a museum built for looking outward as well as in.
Minnewaska State Park Preserve
Walk a high ridge of pale conglomerate, forest, waterfalls, and a startling blue lake.
Bear Mountain State Park
Pair a riverside mountain with Hessian Lake, wooded trails, and long bridge views.
Kaaterskill Falls
See the famous double cascade safely from an overlook before deciding whether to descend.
Saratoga National Historical Park
Read the 1777 battlefield landscape before following the campaign beyond a single monument.
Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site
Tour Springwood as a lived-in Hudson Valley home, then understand the decisions made from it.
Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site (Val-Kill)
Meet the small Hudson Valley retreat where independence, craft, and public service intersected.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
Read the Summer White House as a family residence, political stage, and coastal landscape.
Tenement Museum
Enter the Lower East Side through the rooms and choices of its former residents.
Buffalo AKG Art Museum
Move from a classical art temple into a transparent new home for modern ideas.
The Frick Collection
See paintings and sculpture in the rooms a collector built to live with them.
Intrepid Museum
Trace sea, air, and space history on an actual Hudson River aircraft carrier.
New York State Museum
Connect New York's landscapes, peoples, cities, and turning points in one Albany museum.
Museum of the City of New York
Read the city through its people, density, activism, and changing streets.
Brooklyn Museum
Follow global collections and Brooklyn voices behind a Beaux-Arts facade.
Federal Hall National Memorial
See the 1842 building and the site of Washington’s inauguration amid Wall Street.
Fort Ticonderoga
Explore a Lake Champlain stronghold through ramparts, stories, and surrounding landscape.
Fort Stanwix National Monument
Trace the 1777 siege through a reconstructed frontier stronghold in Rome.
Old Fort Niagara
Explore a layered fortress where the Niagara River meets Lake Ontario.
Harriman State Park
A vast, wooded escape with lake walks, ridge routes, and changing trail difficulty.
Jones Beach State Park
Six and a half miles of Atlantic shore meet a distinctive public-park design.
Montauk Point State Park
Walk the wind-exposed Atlantic edge beside New York's oldest lighthouse.
Allegany State Park — Red House Area
Make Red House Lake your base for western New York forest and recreation.
The High Line
Follow a planted freight viaduct through Chelsea's architecture and public art.
Walkway Over the Hudson
Cross a former rail bridge for an unusually high, uninterrupted river panorama.
Mount Marcy via Van Hoevenberg Trail
A serious, full-day Adirondack hike climbs from Heart Lake through forest to exposed alpine rock and summit views.
Catskill Scenic Trail
Ride or walk a gentle former rail corridor between Catskill foothill communities.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Follow art and architecture along Frank Lloyd Wright's continuous ramp.
Adirondack Park
Explore a vast mosaic of mountain wilderness, lakes, towns, and working land.
Catskill Park
Find waterfalls, fire towers, forest trails, and lake-country escapes.
Ausable Chasm
Follow the carved Ausable River on trails above a dramatic Adirondack sandstone gorge.
Howe Caverns
Join a guided journey through limestone passages and an underground boat ride.
Wave Hill
Slow down among flowering garden rooms overlooking the Hudson River and Palisades.
Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park
Wander a Gold Coast estate where horticulture frames a historic house.
New York Aquarium
Watch sharks, rays, and marine conservation stories beside the Coney Island boardwalk.
Ganondagan State Historic Site
Encounter a historic Seneca town through a living community's own interpretation.