Places agilberthughes Wants to Go

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

No one knows who painted this mysterious mural in a Penn State basement.

A dozen U.S. presidents have stayed at the historic resort, which was known as James Buchanan’s “Summer White House” from 1857-1861.

The meeting of the northwestern corner of Delaware, the northeastern corner of Maryland, and the southern edge of Pennsylvania.

A bronze statue of Mister Rogers in the neighborhood where he grew up.

Where the famed frontiersman was born, raised, and survived Quaker intrigue

An Olympic hero stripped of his medals is buried in a town he never visited, which took his name after his death.

The oldest active church in Pennsylvania is also the second oldest Swedish Church in the United States.

Contrary to popular belief, this secluded statue doesn't represent Pennsylvania's founder.

The souvenir got the company’s founder out of a pretty pickle at the World’s Fair.

Hidden in the hills of Western Pennsylvania lies one of the best-kept ghost towns in America that you can legally visit.

The oldest of only three existing statues of the great novelist stands in a city he did not care for.

The final resting place of two members of the infamous Doan gang, notorious outlaws and Revolutionary War Loyalists.

This giant disembodied horse head seems to balance impossibly on its nose.

Don't get it twisted: This is the oldest pretzel bakery in the United States.