Places Jane August Wants to Go

A bar, burger joint, and arcade housed in a late 19th-century church building.

This exhibit allows visitors to wander through the interior of a replica Ice Age glacial cave.

The largest guitar store in the world has been visited by some of music's all-time greats passing through upstate New York.

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

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

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

This New York estate was designed to resemble a medieval Scottish castle.

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

The great American road trip, but smaller.

The first and only American institution dedicated to the enduring value of comedy in the United States.

A preserved factory in the "Home of the Carrousel" is now a museum dedicated to the classic wooden ride.

The life of one of FDR's possible mistresses is preserved in her palatial Hudson Valley mansion.

This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.

These mouldering mansion ruins remember a time when the Catskills were nothing but luxury.

Ruins of a once-prized railroad station in New York.

Western New York's largest independent bookstore doubles as a historical repository of all things Niagara Falls.

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

Quite possibly the last cross all humans will ever see.

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

The dairy farm in upstate New York where nearly half a million people gathered for three days of peace and music in 1969.

The home, museum, and death site of Kodak's influential founder.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

A collection of the best toys ever made inside a museum devoted to play.