Places BZEWE97 Wants to Go

This manor in the woods memorializes one of the greatest birders of a generation.

A mummy and sarcophagus are part of the many wonders in this library's collection.

A reproduction of a giant humanoid "fossil," a hoax buried locally for construction crews to find and gain national attention.

This memorial in the Adirondack wilderness honors the accidental death of a Scottish entrepreneur.

A feminist who put a pretty face on suffrage when she rode a horse through the Capitol.

A memorial to the 1913 tragedy that helped protect the workers of the future.

Genesis of modern hydroelectric power.

The private island of Yale's elite Skull & Bones society is kind of a dump.

The small burial plot is located in a mall parking lot.

All that remains of one of the Civil War's more deadly POW camps is a simple flagstone.

Of all the unique artifacts inside this library, a mummified hand stands out among the others.

Alexander Milliner, a favorite of General Washington, is interred at Mt. Hope Cemetery along with 80 other Revolutionary War veterans.

Dozens of houses in the Adirondack Mountains are reminders of a literal "cottage industry" to cure people of a deadly disease.

A historic lighthouse steeped in rumors of ghost and pirate stories.

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

More than 350 million years ago, western New York was covered in a vast sea. Today, you can dig up the remains of the plants and animals that lived there.

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

This abandoned artificial island off the coast of New York City is now home to dozens of harbor seals.

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

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

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

The second-largest (of only two in the world) large particle collider is the underdog of experimental physics.

This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.

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