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Places worth the detour in New York

Detourmap lists 137 places in New York, United States, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Niagara Falls. 97 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.

Nature101 Archaeological36
Places
137
Oldest
Fort de La Présentation 1749
Little known
97 of 137
Share of United States
3%

New York 137

The 120 best known of 137. The other 17 are on the map and on the United States pages.

Elsewhere in United States

California463 Alaska334 Washington258 Wyoming198 Oregon187 Utah179 Colorado154 Arizona144 Florida107 Texas106 North Carolina104 Hawaii86

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Questions about this page

What is the best known place worth the detour in New York?

Niagara Falls. Three waterfalls that straddle the international border between Canada and the United States. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.

How many places worth the detour are there in New York?

137: 101 nature & landscapes and 36 archaeological & historic sites. 97 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.

What is the oldest place on this map in New York?

Fort de La Présentation, dated to 1749. 24 of the 137 places here carry a founding date at all.

What counts as New York here?

Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in New York if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. New York is a first-level division of United States, the same level as a state or a province.

Where does this information come from?

Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.