Places kcdipillo31 Wants to Go

The great American road trip, but smaller.

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

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

A peaceful international sculpture garden in upstate New York.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

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

Three acres of mythology-inspired sculptures are visible from the highway.

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

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

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

Town full of spiritualists, some of whom are mediums, is still in full swing after 130 years.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

Home on the Hillside, and home of the first breakfast cereal.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.