Places amypurplegirl Wants to Go

A towering monument to war, located on a beautifully peaceful hill.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

A historic home with ties to the abolition and suffrage movements.

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

A historic recreation of the golden age of the Erie Canal, abandoned for some time, slowly being restored.

The great American road trip, but smaller.

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

A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.

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

A 13,000-year-old mastodon skeleton was found during the construction of a 19th-century New York mill.

Staten Island's original central park is the former home of the city water supply as well as thousands of immigrant graves.

The final resting place of Harriet Tubman and other famous historical figures.

A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.

This theater opened in 1998, but both the building and the puppeteers who perform there have a distinguished history.

An art installation commemorates journalist Nellie Bly's undercover reporting inside a New York asylum.

It wouldn't be long after purchasing this farm, Brown would lead his siege on Harper's Ferry.

The oldest surviving presidential residence in the United States.

Deep in the forest of northern Denmark, this secret underground bunker was built at the height of the Cold War.

America's first serial killer rests in anonymity.

These hooded graves are the only of their kind in the United States.