Places infracta Wants to Go

The flagship building of an early national restaurant chain is a superb example of terra cotta art.

The oldest living organism in New York City. Maybe.

This tiny structure was built by the creator of the Brooklyn Bridge.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

Self-sufficient greenhouse floating on the Hudson River.

The longest step street in the city.

Built in the 1920s, this co-op in the Bronx feels more like an Italian villa than a typical New York apartment building.

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

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

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.

The collection is exhibited in a Staten Island building modeled on traditional Himalayan architecture.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.

Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

The headquarters of the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, complete with Rosicrucian pyramids, all in the Pennsylvania woods.

The house that Frank Lloyd Wright "(shook) out of his sleeve at will" at the age of 86.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.