Places afink Wants to Go

The longest step street in the city.

Small monoliths of several varieties of stone sit alongside a wooded path in the Bronx.

This dilapidated castle-like structure overlooks the Hudson River at one of its widest points and was once home to nuns.

The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.

A whimsical monument deep in this park commemorates the groups that helped build it.

A waterway covered over after the Industrial Revolution has been unearthed and cleaned up, for the enjoyment of fish and humans alike.

A beautiful, historic location open to the public.

An abandoned horticulture institute gloomily presides over rows of derelict and vine-wrought greenhouses.

Amazing views of Long Island Sound can be seen from this mountaintop tower.

An overgrown and abandoned tuberculosis ward resides in the midst of a quaint modern neighborhood.

A 26-foot-tall fiberglass American legend stands proudly here.

Journey inside the bowels of this sperm whale sculpture.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

The home of an antique carousel still in operation.

The oldest brick saltbox house in America.

Two artist-designed restrooms are part of the collection at the Smith College Museum of Art.

Taxidermy reptiles and rodents put on quite the show at this local history museum.

This decrepit abandoned building is made all the more eerie by its dark history.

The first keystone arch railroad bridges constructed in America.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

Site of the graveyard vine believed to be a curse on a family from the 1800s.

The house where Rudyard Kipling wrote 'The Jungle Book' is also the location of the first tennis court in Vermont.

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.