Brooklyn, New York
The Lehigh Barge and the Waterfront Museum Showboat Barge
Lehigh Valley barge No. 79 still gets tugged along - but now it houses a museum and unusual performances.
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Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Brooklyn, New York
Lehigh Valley barge No. 79 still gets tugged along - but now it houses a museum and unusual performances.
Brooklyn, New York
The highest rapid transit station in the world.
Brooklyn, New York
Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.
Brooklyn, New York
One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.
Brooklyn, New York
A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.
Brooklyn, New York
This recipe is set in stone.
Brooklyn, New York
Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.
Brooklyn, New York
A one-ton statue of Steve Rogers beautifies the entry to a Brooklyn Bed, Bath & Beyond.
Staten Island, New York
The pioneering photographer's prints are immortalized inside her childhood home.
Staten Island, New York
Eccentric stone cairns built on a public New York City beach.
Staten Island, New York
Devotional offerings and pleas for intercession are left at this Depression-era shrine inside a nature preserve.
Brooklyn, New York
The inventor of the Coney Island hot dog rests in a grand mausoleum in Brooklyn.
Brooklyn, New York
This seemingly unremarkable boulder is said to bear the hoofprint of the devil himself.
Brooklyn, New York
A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.
Natural Bridge, Virginia
A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.
Zanesville, Ohio
A favorite of Amelia Earhart, ranking among those rare bridges that can be crossed without changing sides of the river.
Thousand Palms, California
Hike amid the palm trees that thrive among Southern California's Indio Hills.
La Quinta, California
A giant desert bird that once swung music fans at Coachella now has a home in a nearby traffic circle.
Indio, California
A giant knight, sex education, date shakes, and Jesus coexist happily in this Coachella Valley desert oasis.
Indio, California
A monument to the frontier doctor who came up with the idea of delineating highways with a painted line.
Cold Spring, New York
Reforestation in action is the main attraction in this abandoned quarry.
Cold Spring, New York
A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.
Cold Spring, New York
This abandoned ironworks was once the most important military supplier in America.
Kingston, New York
The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.