Places aimeebint Wants to Go

A distillery built on (and above!) mobster Dutch Schultz's Prohibition-era underground moonshine business.

A unique work of art that was created without permission.

A living antique aviation museum in the historic town of Red Hook, New York.

A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

An abandoned 19th century quarry in the middle of the woods, remade by unnamed wanderers into a massive series of rock thrones.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

The abandoned ruins of America's first private zoo are open for exploration in the Catskills.

A CT scan revealed the identity of this 3,000-year-old mummy that everyone erroneously thought was female.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

A small Second Empire-style building is one of only seven remaining lighthouses on the Hudson River.

Three acres of mythology-inspired sculptures are visible from the highway.

At this farm in upstate New York, the former president plotted his reelection campaign.

The schoolhouse where Jesse Merwin, the inspiration for the "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" character, once taught.

This elaborate High Victorian Gothic structure is one of the world's few 16-sided buildings.

The first American home of the isolated, egalitarian religion has a trove of Shaker architecture and artifacts.

A 13,000-year-old mastodon skeleton was found during the construction of a 19th-century New York mill.

The original Uncle Sam was actually a New York meatpacker who is buried under this historic grave.

A man used his Civil War-era fortune to build this sanctuary in memory of his wife.

This stained glass window designed by Tiffany Studios is hidden behind the circulation desk of a public library.

A museum and apothecary garden devoted to the history of frontier medicine.

Very likely the only museum in the world that celebrates the glory of the humble banjo.

Travel through the hidden underbelly of the city in colorful tunnels filled with art and history exhibits.