Places jeffro66 Wants to Go

A touching tribute to the "Queen of Soul."

The longest step street in the city.

An interesting look into 18th-century American history.

Opened in 1947, this is the oldest continuously-operating drive-in theater in New York.

Genesis of modern hydroelectric power.

A historic lighthouse steeped in rumors of ghost and pirate stories.

More than 350 million years ago, western New York was covered in a vast sea. Today, you can dig up the remains of the plants and animals that lived there.

The East Village tenement from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album has a tea shop on the ground floor.

Alexander Milliner, a favorite of General Washington, is interred at Mt. Hope Cemetery along with 80 other Revolutionary War veterans.

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

Three gardens with toilets and urinals filled with bright flowers started as a protest against zoning rules.

Where the legendary Orson Welles got his theatrical start before "Citizen Kane."

A 13,000-year-old mastodon skeleton was found during the construction of a 19th-century New York mill.

Golden plates containing what would become the Book of Mormon were believed to be buried on this New York hillside.

This landmark jazz venue is the oldest continuously running African-American club in the United States. Currently undergoing renovations, it is set to reopen in late 2025.

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

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

What remains of the simple red brick chapel where the women's rights movement began.

A peaceful international sculpture garden in upstate New York.

The oldest Methodist church in the United States has been spreading the good news for over two centuries.

Magnificent New Deal Murals evoke a time when New York City harbor was one of the world's greatest and busiest ports.

It wouldn't be long after purchasing this farm, Brown would lead his siege on Harper's Ferry.

Stunningly detailed mosaics in a New York subway station bring life to the Weimaraners of artist William Wegman's work—and to thousands of commutes.

Twenty-three trees, each paired with a basalt stone, line a street in Chelsea, continuing an urban project started by German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys.