Places jimvmurray Wants to Go

This locally-famous crevasse in New York State is icy all year round.

This high-perched pachyderm marks the memory of not one, but two elephants gunned down in small New England towns.

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

A distillery built on (and above!) mobster Dutch Schultz's Prohibition-era underground moonshine business.

Oldest existing wire suspension bridge in the United States.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

A memorial to the 1913 tragedy that helped protect the workers of the future.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

Discovered by cows, these upstate New York show caves are presented with a healthy dose of psychedelic folk art.

A tiny village in Upstate New York ushered in the precursor to drive-in movies.

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

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

This public park was the site of the largest civilian disaster of the Civil War.

A preserved 18th century homestead in Western Pennsylvania marks the spot where the Whiskey Rebellion began.

Where the oil industry began.

The famous bell was secreted away and hidden in a church in Allentown during the British occupation of Philadelphia.

What looks like a simple quaint estate in rural Pennsylvania was in the 18th century home to a small monastic community.

A pride of the state, this working museum crafts pottery mosaics in the style of Pennsylvania's earliest European settlers.

A museum dedicated to the history & joys of the trail & your best chance to see hikers throwing up ice cream.

This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.

Pennsylvania's highest point is spotted with boulders which were pushed to the surface by nothing but cold.

This Pennsylvania cave holds evidence of the oldest known inhabitants of North America.

Pennsylvanian mass grave and possibly mass murder.

When the Austin Dam failed it destroyed much of Austin...and then it failed again.