Orient, New York
Plum Island Animal Disease Center
A tiny islet just off Long Island offers a wealth of infectious curiosities.
Places Debby Morris Wants to Go
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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Cooperstown, New York
The Cardiff Giant
A gigantic 10-foot tall stone man.
Eden, New York
Original American Kazoo Company
This two-room factory has been cranking out the musical signifier of zaniness for a century.
Brooklyn, New York
The Tomb of Jane Griffith
A heartbreaking monument showing the last morning in the life of Jane Griffith.
New York, New York
Amiable Child Monument
One of the only single-person private gravesites in New York City.
Buffalo, New York
William McKinley Assassination Plaque
The site of William McKinley's tragic assassination is only marked by an underwhelming boulder.
Rochester, New York
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery
A beautiful final resting place with some surprising residents.
Palmyra, New York
The Sacred Grove
A field in which God and his son Jesus purportedly appeared to a young farm boy named Joseph Smith.
New York, New York
Edward Mooney House
Built just after the American Revolution, the oldest row house in New York City still stands in Chinatown.
Brooklyn, New York
Abolitionist Place
This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.
Jamestown, New York
National Comedy Center
The first and only American institution dedicated to the enduring value of comedy in the United States.
Permanently Closed
Romulus, New York
Spud Chuckin'
Launch vegetables using oversized slingshots at this Fingerlakes winery's roadside attraction.
Prattsville, New York
Pratt Rock - New York's Mount Rushmore
Believe It or Not, Ripley once called this chiseled mountainside “New York’s Mount Rushmore”.
Albany, New York
The Mummy Ankhefenmut
A CT scan revealed the identity of this 3,000-year-old mummy that everyone erroneously thought was female.
New York, New York
The Wertheim Study
This study room in the New York Public Library saw the creation of one of contemporary America's greatest traitors.
New York, New York
Fliers and Explorers Globe
A prized globe signed by Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh sits in the Brooklyn office of the American Geographical Society.
New York, New York
Henry Bliss Plaque
A memorial to the first person killed by a motor vehicle in the Western Hemisphere.
New York, New York
Electric Lady Studios
Jimi Hendrix's legendary recording studio in Greenwich Village.
Oyster Bay, New York
The Hidden Colonial Cemeteries of Oyster Bay
Some of the earliest burial grounds of New York State are to be found hidden away in this quaint town.
New York, New York
Model Ship Collection at the South Street Seaport Museum
Set sail on a small scale.
Kinderhook, New York
Ichabod Crane Schoolhouse
The schoolhouse where Jesse Merwin, the inspiration for the "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" character, once taught.
Rochester, New York
House of Guitars
The largest guitar store in the world has been visited by some of music's all-time greats passing through upstate New York.
New York, New York
The Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.
Brooklyn, New York
Grave of John Matthews: The Soda Fountain King
Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.
