Places avermonter Wants to Go

This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

Obscure and obsolete publications are given new life as works of art.

Church in Manhattan holds the bloody sock of Padre Pio, among with many other unusual relics.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.

Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.

An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.

Volunteer-run library dedicated to exploring five decades of activism history.

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

An ancient glacial pothole waterfall in the heart of the Green Mountains.