Places brayertom Wants to Go

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

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.

The largest known open fault in the United States is basically a giant natural refrigerator.

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.

A mysterious echo seems to defy the laws of acoustics.

Every year model trains zip through a miniature New York City that's now 150 landmarks strong.

This sandstone gorge in New York State's Adirondack Mountains is home to waterfalls, flumes, and more.

Comprehensive gaming collection of over 30,000 electronic games and consoles.

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect 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.

Not even a series of devastating fires could keep this odd castle in upstate New York from bouncing back.

Discovered by cows, these upstate New York show caves are presented with a healthy dose of psychedelic folk art.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

A six-story treehouse offers spectacular views of New York's Finger Lakes region.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.