Places GardinersBay Wants to Go

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

Take a step inside the picturesque studio of America’s most renowned sculptor.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

Herman Melville wrote 'Moby Dick' in this landmark 18th-century house surrounded by farmland.

A history of the U.S. military, with a focus on Pennsylvania's contributions.

A small Second Empire-style building is one of only seven remaining lighthouses on the Hudson River.

At this farm in upstate New York, the former president plotted his reelection campaign.

The road plays 30 seconds of the Marine’s Hymn when driving over the grooved pavement.

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

One man’s obsessive, 30-plus-year quest is behind the pies at this spot on the Lower East Side.

A retired firefighter created this contraption so he and his family wouldn't die if accidentally buried alive.

Final resting place of two dozen New York City harbor ships.

Starting in 1961, Brookhaven National Labs regularly irradiated a section of forest with a canister of Cesium-137 to study the effects of hard gamma radiation on an ecosystem.

This house was used by the FBI to broadcast disinformation to the Nazis during World War II.

This lighthouse was witness to the end of WWII hostilities and now collects creepy cairns.

Before its closure in 2002, this South Dakota mine was the largest and deepest gold mine in Western Hemisphere.

The first atheist monument on public land in the United States.

One of the few places in the world that let's you legally relieve yourself on a UNESCO world heritage site.

The 570-ton boulder that gave a New Jersey town its name.

A millionaire's abandoned swimming pool from the gilded age of one of America's most distinguished families.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

Where scientists keep miles of very valuable ice from Antarctica and Greenland from melting.

A downtown park built on top of unclaimed graves.