Places hannsharonr Wants to Go

Home on the Hillside, and home of the first breakfast cereal.

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

A Frankenstein blend of science and art allows one tree to produce 40 different types of stone fruit.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

In DeWitt, New York, a blanket-wrapped gas station makes a creative statement on global dependence on oil.

An enormous cat made of recycled wood scraps.

A carriage house converted into what resembles an 11th-century English manor house

This overlooked gem outside Niagara Falls preserves and celebrates Iroquois culture.

Dozens of houses in the Adirondack Mountains are reminders of a literal "cottage industry" to cure people of a deadly disease.

The shared home of a utopian commune that practiced "free love" a century before the hippies.

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

All that remains of the once-booming chain is a single orange-roofed restaurant.

A tree full of wishes and footwear.

In the mid-19th century, an eight-sided house was the latest fad.

The remains of what was once the world's steepest passenger funicular.

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

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

This small road tunnel is the only place where you can cross beneath the Erie Canal.

Rochester's signature culinary delicacy.

"Call for the doctor, call for the nurse... Vote!! said the lady with the alligator purse."