Description
The top 100 places to visit in New York State, starting with the most breathtaking: Niagara Falls, Letchworth's Grand Canyon of the East, the 19 waterfalls of Watkins Glen, the Statue of Liberty and Boldt Castle, all the way to hidden gems like Opus 40, Great Camp Sagamore and the free Binghamton carousels. Every place is pinned on a 3D satellite map of New York, with fun facts along the way.
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Chapters:
0:00 #1 Niagara Falls
0:25 #2 Letchworth
0:46 #3 Watkins Glen
1:05 #4 Statue of Liberty
1:24 #5 Boldt Castle
1:49 #6 Empire State Building
2:09 #7 Taughannock Falls
2:29 #8 Lake Placid
2:51 #9 Ausable Chasm
3:11 #10 Brooklyn Bridge
3:32 #11 Whiteface Highway
3:52 #12 Grand Central Terminal
4:11 #13 Kaaterskill Falls
4:32 #14 Robert H. Treman
4:48 #15 Lake George
5:06 #16 Green Lakes State Park
5:23 #17 Eternal Flame Falls
5:47 #18 Central Park
6:06 #19 Ellis Island
6:27 #20 9/11 Memorial & Museum
6:53 #21 Minnewaska
7:12 #22 One World Trade Center
7:29 #23 Howe Caverns
7:51 #24 Mount Marcy
8:13 #25 Mohonk Mountain House
8:34 #26 Bear Mountain State Park
8:55 #27 Times Square
9:14 #28 The High Line
9:32 #29 Montauk Lighthouse
9:54 #30 Chimney Bluffs
10:11 #31 Bannerman's Castle
10:34 #32 Singer Castle
10:52 #33 Intrepid Museum
11:11 #34 West Point
11:30 #35 Coney Island
11:46 #36 Bronx Zoo
12:04 #37 Buttermilk Falls
12:21 #38 Little Island
12:38 #39 State Capitol
12:59 #40 Walkway Over the Hudson
13:21 #41 Storm King Art Center
13:42 #42 The Met
14:00 #43 Natural History Museum
14:17 #44 MoMA
14:33 #45 Guggenheim Museum
14:51 #46 Corning Museum of Glass
15:13 #47 Secret Caverns
15:36 #48 Old Fort Niagara
15:53 #49 High Falls
16:08 #50 Staten Island Ferry
16:24 #51 Olana
16:41 #52 Fort Ticonderoga
17:02 #53 Chittenango Falls
17:21 #54 The Cloisters
17:39 #55 Sleepy Hollow
17:59 #56 Strong Museum of Play
18:15 #57 Lockport Locks
18:34 #58 Baseball Hall of Fame
18:55 #59 Saratoga Spa State Park
19:15 #60 Saratoga Battlefield
19:38 #61 NY Botanical Garden
19:58 #62 FDR Home & Library
20:16 #63 Vanderbilt Mansion
20:34 #64 Oheka Castle
20:54 #65 Rockefeller Center
21:15 #66 St. Patrick's Cathedral
21:34 #67 Skaneateles Lake
21:50 #68 Rock City Park
22:07 #69 Herkimer Diamond Mines
22:26 #70 Sunken Forest
22:44 #71 Women's Rights Park
23:01 #72 Harriet Tubman Park
23:19 #73 Bethel Woods
23:40 #74 The Wild Center
23:58 #75 Governors Island
24:16 #76 Kykuit
24:35 #77 Jones Beach
24:52 #78 Untermyer Gardens
25:09 #79 Fire Island Lighthouse
25:24 #80 Dia Beacon
25:42 #81 Allegany
25:58 #82 Panorama of NYC
26:21 #83 Thacher Park
26:39 #84 Darwin Martin House
26:56 #85 Opus 40
27:16 #86 Great Camp Sagamore
27:32 #87 Binghamton Carousels
27:50 #88 Brooklyn Botanic Garden
28:09 #89 Buffalo City Hall
28:27 #90 Washington's HQ
28:46 #91 Apollo Theater
29:04 #92 Lyndhurst
29:21 #93 National Comedy Center
29:37 #94 Santa's Workshop
29:54 #95 Thomas Cole Site
30:15 #96 Sonnenberg Gardens
30:35 #97 George Eastman Museum
30:52 #98 Old Westbury Gardens
31:09 #99 Playland
31:23 #100 Sagamore Hill
Sources: the official site of each place; New York State Parks; the National Park Service (Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Saratoga, Sagamore Hill, FDR, Vanderbilt, Women's Rights and Harriet Tubman parks); Adirondack Park Agency; Empire State Plaza; History.com; The Cultural Landscape Foundation; Atlas Obscura; Indiana University & INGV (Eternal Flame Falls gas); Wikipedia articles, cross-checked.
Photo credits: every photo is credited on screen (author and license), and the full list by place is in the pinned comment. BY / BY-SA = Creative Commons Attribution / ShareAlike (creativecommons.org/licenses), PD = public domain, LOC = Library of Congress. Photos cropped and color-graded.
3D map: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX (CC BY 4.0, contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), NASA Blue Marble, AWS Terrain Tiles, U.S. Census Bureau state borders; town names from GeoNames (geonames.org, CC BY 4.0).