Isamu Noguchi’s eponymous museum in Long Island City was, in fact, designed by the prolific artist himself, and opened three years before his death in 1988. The Archtober tour will focus on the building’s recent restoration, carried out by Sage and Coombe Architects, which “afforded the Museum with improved accessibility, allowing it to remain open year-round, and bringing it to the rigorous standards of contemporary museums.” October 4 at noon; tickets.

Midcentury architect Paul Rudolph completed several buildings in Manhattan, including this steel and glass creation on East 58th Street, which The AIA Guide to New York City calls “almost musically composed.” The Archtober tour will go through the four-story building, which includes a duplex apartment and now houses the Paul Rudolph Foundation. The tour, taking place October 6 at noon, is sold out, but you can sign up for the waitlist.

Marvel Architects and Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects designed the Naval Cemetery Park, which opened in 2016, to pay homage to the 2,000 naval officers and Marines laid to rest at the site (the known remains have since been exhumed and moved to Cypress Hills) with its winding observation path, memorial meadow, and "sacred grove." The Archtober tour will explore the 1.7-acre park, located on the edge of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. October 10 at noon; tickets.

Staten Island has gotten some architecturally noteworthy buildings in recent years, including the Staten Island Courthouse in St. George, designed by Ennead Architects and opened in 2015. It’s a quite contemporary building, clad in glass (intended to symbolize transparency) and with four copper structures that the architects call “towers of justice.” October 18 at 2:30 p.m.; tickets.

One of Brooklyn’s most unusual single-family homes is this Williamsburg house, designed by LOT-EK, that’s made up of 21 steel shipping containers. They were stacked together, then cut on a diagonal to, per the architects, “creat[e] a striking profile that invokes Williamsburg's industrial past, while providing a sculptural nod to the rapidly changing neighborhood.” See it for yourself during Archtober, if you’re lucky—the tour on October 19 at noon is sold out, but there’s a wait list available.

Yes, we’re recommending you check out a bus terminal as an architecturally significant site—the original station was designed by Pier Luigi Nervi, and it recently got a facelift courtesy of STV and the Port Authority’s architectural unit. The Archtober tour will take participants through the revamped station, including its “passenger pavilion providing passengers direct views of the George Washington Bridge from one side.” October 23 at noon; tickets.

Take a break from all the contemporary architecture and spend an afternoon at the Morris-Jumel Mansion, the oldest still-standing building in Manhattan. The structure has a storied history—George Washington slept there, Aaron Burr lived there, and it became a museum 113 years ago. The Archtober tour will offer a fascinating peek inside one of the city’s best-preserved historic houses. October 28 at 3:30 p.m.; tickets.

Alas, the new Cornell Tech campus tour is also sold out. But it’s worth getting a spot on the waitlist to check out the sustainable buildings—designed by Weiss/Manfredi, Morphosis, and Handel Architects—and get the behind-the-scenes scoop on how they came together. October 30 at noon; wait list.