Places brayertom Wants to Go

Known by nicknames like the "Jersey Jumper" and the "Daring Yankee," Patch was the first famous daredevil in the United States.

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

Where the Millerites gathered to watch the end of the world in 1844—and left disappointed.

Adherence to strict Jewish laws is required to enter this ultra-conservative New York village.

This historic fort spans more the 300 years.

An interesting look into 18th-century American history.

Golden plates containing what would become the Book of Mormon were believed to be buried on this New York hillside.

Three gardens with toilets and urinals filled with bright flowers started as a protest against zoning rules.

A Seussian sculpture made of brass instruments.

The summit Roosevelt conquered before he descended to become The Chief.

Opened in 1947, this is the oldest continuously-operating drive-in theater in New York.

A near tragic event on this bridge helped inspire the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life."

Explore the evolution of printing technology, from cuneiform to Kindle.

This Frank Lloyd Wright summer house was designed along Lake Erie as a retreat for a client's wife.

A field in which God and his son Jesus purportedly appeared to a young farm boy named Joseph Smith.

This fancifully decorated Victorian home in New York’s Hudson Valley is the only known fully domed octagonal residence in the United States.

A bar, burger joint, and arcade housed in a late 19th-century church building.

Homemade rockets, dinosaurs, and robots make this New York small business much more than a furniture store.

One of the largest festivals of flowers in North America takes place, appropriately, in the Flower City.

A beautiful final resting place with some surprising residents.

Antique skeletons and taxidermy creatures were found crammed in a university closet.

Take an underground boat ride through a former hydraulic raceway that was built in the late 19th century.

This island castle contains enough secret passageways to support a season of Scooby-Doo episodes.

The largest guitar store in the world has been visited by some of music's all-time greats passing through upstate New York.