Officially titled 'Liberty Enlightening the World,' the United States' most famous statue was a gift from France, commemorating 100 years of independence.  

Adirondack Park, formed about 10 million years ago, is more than twice as large as Yellowstone and nearly double the age of the Appalachians.  

The Catskills were the first American landscape to be romanticized in literature as the setting of Washington Irving's 1819 novel, Rip Van Winkle.  

New York City's Times Square has drawn enormous crowds since the New Year's ball-dropping tradition began in 1906.  

As New York's oldest city, Albany has had several distinguished residents. Five presidents got their start in the capital city—Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin Roosevelt.  

Deriving its name from its claim to fame, Long Island is, indeed, the longest island on the East Coast.  

'Betwixt the Lake Ontario and Erie, there is a vast and prodigious Cadence of Water... The Universe does not afford its Parallel.'
       —Missionary Father Louis Hennepin on Niagara Falls