Places jamesholbrookiv Wants to Go

A 19th-century architectural wonder designed by the "father of the skyscraper."

The site of William McKinley's tragic assassination is only marked by an underwhelming boulder.

This Buffalo museum hides an Art Deco gas station designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

A former poultry store that looks like a giant duck and is one of the "seven wonders" of Long Island.

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

The façade of this building looks like a bingo board, but it's really a giant clock by a famed graphic designer.

Astonishing collection of helmets, scientific instruments, and medical models.

One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.

The first "Hall of Fame" in America was designed by legendary Gilded Age architect Stanford White for what was then the NYU uptown campus.

A young woman's senseless murder led to the controversial psychological theory of the "bystander effect."

An eccentric playboy's astounding natural history collection.

Hidden behind a gate in Greenwich Village is a little farmhouse that once served as the writing studio of a bestselling author.

This unique crypt designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his longtime friend was not completed in either man's lifetime.

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

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

The Underground Railroad passed right through this historic Brooklyn Heights church.

An isolated beacon with a history of grisly murder and a view of some of literature's greatest inspirations.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

Haunted Victorian house that inspired a legendary "Ghostbusters" court ruling.

The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.

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

A sewing machine tycoon built this miniature castle for the people and to beautify a lakeshore.

This throwback amusement park is home to rides and unique storybook figures from the past.

The great American road trip, but smaller.