Hobart, New York
Hobart Book Village
This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Cooperstown, New York
Kingfisher Tower
A sewing machine tycoon built this miniature castle for the people and to beautify a lakeshore.
Bluff Point, New York
USA Field
One patriotic farmer's ode to the 9/11 tragedy remains even after the farm changed hands.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Washburn Park Water Tower
Eight "Guardians of Health" protect this art deco water tower from pollutants and bacteria.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Art Shanties at Lake Harriet
Direct, creative challenge to Mother Nature's winter wrath.
Arlee, Montana
Garden of One Thousand Buddhas
This giant meditative chakra sits peacefully in the Flathead Valley of western Montana.
Butte, Montana
Our Lady of the Rockies
High in the Rockies the third largest statue in the U.S. opens her welcoming arms, and lights up the night sky.
Chamberlain, South Dakota
Dignity of Earth and Sky
A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.
Rapid City, South Dakota
Hotel Alex Johnson
One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.
Bronx, New York
Woodlawn Cemetery
The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.
Salisbury, Connecticut
Noble Horizons Retirement Home
Retirement home where the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West passed away.
New Hartford, Connecticut
Satan's Kingdom State Recreation Area
Who knew the Devil's domain was a hot spot for tubing?
Washington, Connecticut
Jason's Haunts
New Preston and Kent, Connecticut - where Friday the 13th, Part 2 was filmed.
New Haven, Connecticut
Skull and Bones Tomb
The headquarters of the famous Yale society.
New Haven, Connecticut
Crypt at Center Church-on-the-Green
137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.
Bronx, New York
Kool Herc's Block
This Bronx apartment building is officially recognized as the birthplace of hip-hop.
Queens, New York
The Abandoned Rockaway Beach Branch of the Long Island Railroad
A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.
Syosset, New York
Ruins of King Zog's Estate
An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.
New York, New York
The Brown Building
The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.
New York, New York
The General Worth Monument
This monument to a veteran of the Mexican-American War is one of only two in Manhattan that serve as an actual mausoleum.
New York, New York
The Statue of Roscoe Conkling
A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.
New York, New York
Broadway Flea Market
An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.
New York, New York
The Old McGraw-Hill Building
Captain America, Sub-Mariner, and the Human Torch were all born in this art deco Manhattan masterpiece.
New York, New York
The Lightship Frying Pan
Rummage through this sunken ship, but leave your scuba gear at home.
