Places Emily Sue Wants to Go

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement served food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

These tombs were built into the side of a mountain so that ancient angels could reach the dead.

Enigmatic tombs and cave dwellings on the outskirts of a rural village.

At more than 5,000 years old, these structures are among the oldest free-standing stone buildings in the world.

Covering 37 subterranean acres, this Armillaria gallic is a famous fungus with its own festival.

This lone survivor of a regional franchise still slings delicious burgers and colossal servings of fries.

Legend says this cave housed a 16th-century cannibal and his family of 48.

Near this coastal cave stands a small memorial to the hermit who made it his home for three decades.

This now-abandoned part of the original transcontinental railroad route provides a surreal driving and historical experience.

When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.

The moving metal works of one troubled artist can still be viewed on his front lawn... for now.

An environmental art installation inspired by farmhouses and crop circles.

This massive home was constructed by one of the greatest conservationists in Colorado history.

A puppeteer’s paradise offering shows, workshops, and an archive of over 2,000 puppets.

The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

A small part of Russia that does not touch any other part of Russia.

An all-female order shares an ancient culinary art with visitors at their mountaintop monastery.

A monk-run winery inside a Buddhist temple celebrates Japan's crown grape varietal.

A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.