Places Mixxona Wants to Go

The birthplace of America's favorite fruit-flavored mystery dessert.

The abandoned ruins of America's first private zoo are open for exploration in the Catskills.

A near tragic event on this bridge helped inspire the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life."

The great American road trip, but smaller.

Surprising rock art on the Adirondack Scenic Byway.

This sandstone gorge in New York State's Adirondack Mountains is home to waterfalls, flumes, and more.

Secluded amid upstate New York’s Adirondack Mountains lies this subterranean emblem of a nation on the brink of nuclear war. And it's for sale.

Hike deep into the woods to explore this Gilded Age masterpiece.

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.

Teddy Roosevelt’s famous “midnight ride to the presidency" started at this small lake high up in the Adirondacks.

A hamlet full of permanent Christmas spirit holds one of the earliest theme parks in the United States.

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

Abandoned for over a century, this chilling train tunnel is now a destination for ghost hunters.

A Canadian POW for German soldiers during WWII where prisoners hatched an elaborate escape plan.

This 1836 church, constructed by formerly enslaved people, honors a leader in Afrocentric music.

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

A Frankenstein blend of science and art allows one tree to produce 40 different types of stone fruit.

The library of every book lover's dreams.

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

A mysterious lake provides fresh water without any source, somehow restoring itself from atop its mountaintop perch.

Ruins of a once-prized railroad station in New York.

The final resting place of Harriet Tubman and other famous historical figures.

An old dining hall now serves up ghost stories for lusty locals.

The shared home of a utopian commune that practiced "free love" a century before the hippies.