Places GardinersBay Wants to Go

For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

A marker commemorates a 1,400-pound wheel of cheese made to honor Andrew Jackson.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

A controversial magical figure is hidden within a diorama of the city.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

An interesting look into 18th-century American history.

A unique 3-D sculpture based on Rene Magritte’s “The Red Model.”

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.

This monument pays tribute to the city’s contribution to basketball history.

Buffalo's abandoned concrete grain elevators are getting a second life.

Oldest existing wire suspension bridge in the United States.

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

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

The first commercial nuclear power plant constructed on Long Island.

A colonial family tomb that once doubled as New York City’s secret records vault.

Small monoliths of several varieties of stone sit alongside a wooded path in the Bronx.

An activist who committed her life to peace and women's suffrage.

This century-old independent movie theater with an iconic Art Deco neon sign survived a devastating fire in 2016.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

A library where thousands of books explain how to avoid another Great Recession.

This Las Vegas casino boasts one of only three spiral escalators in the United States—an engineering wonder.

Surprising rock art on the Adirondack Scenic Byway.

A watering hole where regulars who have ordered 500 beers have their names etched on the bar in gold.

This ancient spring in central London was featured in a Peter Pan story.