Places BZEWE97 Wants to Go

Established in 1937, the oldest candy shop in New York City boasts a rainbow-colored inventory that would make Willy Wonka envious.

This exhibit allows visitors to wander through the interior of a replica Ice Age glacial cave.

This sprawling collection of saintly relics includes such fascinations as wood from the Cross of Jesus and threads from Mary's veil.

A tiny islet just off Long Island offers a wealth of infectious curiosities.

The first pet cemetery in the United States.

The site of William McKinley's tragic assassination is only marked by an underwhelming boulder.

The schoolhouse where Jesse Merwin, the inspiration for the "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" character, once taught.

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

The lost town of Neversink, sunk by New York City.

The first American home of the isolated, egalitarian religion has a trove of Shaker architecture and artifacts.

The quarry was abandoned over 100 years ago, after a massive ammunition explosion ended in tragedy.

Hundreds of numbered stakes hidden in the woods mark the graves of the lost souls of a nearby asylum.

The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.

This unique crypt designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his longtime friend was not completed in either man's lifetime.

A trove of century-old litho stones from the Puck Building's printing days were discovered behind a cellar wall, and are now hanging in the store.

The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.

Pluto is still considered a planet in Ithaca, New York.

This throwback amusement park is home to rides and unique storybook figures from the past.

This mysterious marker puzzles pedestrians and infuriates geographers.

The dairy farm in upstate New York where nearly half a million people gathered for three days of peace and music in 1969.

A sewing machine tycoon built this miniature castle for the people and to beautify a lakeshore.

The home, museum, and death site of Kodak's influential founder.

A plaque immortalizes the spot where the early American spy said his famous last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.