Places bibliophile22 Wants to Go

Bizarre Cavern.

A monument marks the location of the first successful steamboat demonstration.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

This collection of odd proofs of concept is like taking a walk through the imagination of a Victorian engineer.

The Binghamton area is home to six of the last remaining hand-carved vintage carousels.

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.

An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.

A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

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

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

This Philly landmark has a giant butterfly pavilion, three floors of insect displays, and withstood a $40,000 heist.

Eccentric stone cairns built on a public New York City beach.

Collection of antique science instruments displayed in recreated 1870-1930 laboratories.

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

An accidentally hidden library containing the ephemeral history of New York.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.

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

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

Called the “General Motors of the piano industry,” these buildings once produced as many as 700 pianos a week.

An allegedly haunted testament to a local businessman's desire for status, posterity, and charity.

On the hills of Bay Ridge stands a house straight out of a fairy tale.

This 19th-century Hamptons windmill was once home to modernist painter Agnes Pelton.