Places lakupper13 Wants to Go

Pluto is still considered a planet in Ithaca, New York.

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

Museum dedicated to the struggles of the disabled.

A retired subway car stands alone in a field in the middle of Queens.

The origins of midtown Manhattan's anachronistic wooden farmhouse remain a mystery.

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

A remnant from the golden age of aviation still in use today, Pan Am's Clipper service took off from this Art Deco gem.

The world’s largest collection of Tiffany glass sits in a warehouse in Queens.

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

Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.

This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.

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

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest—and favorite—architectural masterpieces was almost lost.

The gravestone of the suffragist leader attracted extra visitors during the 2016 election.

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

This art center is way beyond your average pumpkin-carving operation.

The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

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

An abandoned subway tunnel that could have reinvigorated Staten Island still lies somewhere beneath this Brooklyn park.

A Gothic-style abode built to accommodate the church's three resident peacocks.

Rat sculptures try to infiltrate the Graybar Building in an architectural tribute to New York City's nautical history.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.