Queens, New York
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Cemetery
The graveyard holds the remains of Irish immigrants who arrived in Queens after fleeing the Great Famine.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Queens, New York
The Welling Court Mural Project
A collaborative art project that transformed a neighborhood in NYC's Queens.
Queens, New York
Troma Entertainment Inc.
The best B-movies filmed on a shoestring budget were born here.
Queens, New York
Phil-Am Foods
Snack on a partially gestated duck egg.
New Haven, Connecticut
Statue of "King" William Lanson
This statue honors a pillar of the early New Haven Black community.
New Haven, Connecticut
Grave of Arthur Twining Hadley
A Yale University president wears full samurai garb in one of America’s oldest cemeteries.
New Haven, Connecticut
Ingalls Rink
It looks like a whale, it's part of Yale, and it's best-known by a nickname you can probably work out for yourself.
New Haven, Connecticut
Skull and Bones Tomb
The headquarters of the famous Yale society.
Windsor, Connecticut
Memorial to Alse Young and Lydia Gilbert
Decades before the Salem Witch Trials, two Connecticut women were executed for alleged witchcraft.
Chicopee, Massachusetts
Edward Bellamy House
The home of a famed utopian science fiction author has been preserved long after his predicted future in the year 2000.
Permanently Closed
Springfield, Massachusetts
Mason Park Basketball Monument
This site commemorates the birthplace of the game of basketball, invented by James Naismith in the winter of 1891.
Springfield, Massachusetts
The Titanic Museum
Home to the Titanic Historical Society's collection.
Springfield, Massachusetts
Dr. Seuss Sculpture Garden
Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.
Springfield, Massachusetts
Dr. Seuss Museum
A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.
New York, New York
Tompkins Square Temperance Fountain
A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.
New York, New York
Greenacre Park
Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.
New York, New York
‘The Gilded Lady’
A vibrant, 100-foot-tall mural dedicated to Evelyn Nesbit, the tragic icon of the Gilded Age.
New York, New York
Citigroup Center Stilts
If it hadn't been caught in time, a flaw in the design of this Manhattan skyscraper could have led to its collapse.
New York, New York
The Statue of Roscoe Conkling
A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.
New York, New York
The General Worth Monument
This monument to a veteran of the Mexican-American War is one of only two in Manhattan that serve as an actual mausoleum.
New York, New York
The "Irving House"
Nope, not Washington Irving's house.
New York, New York
William Lescaze Townhouse
New York City's first Modernist house.
New York, New York
Economy Candy
Established in 1937, the oldest candy shop in New York City boasts a rainbow-colored inventory that would make Willy Wonka envious.
New York, New York
Saint Vartan Armenian Cathedral
A replica of a 7th-century church hides in plain sight in the middle of the concrete jungle.
