Places NiftyChick Wants to Go

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

Explore the wide world of miniature trains.

A gigantic 10-foot tall stone man.

Take a trip back to the 1950s and the heyday of the road trip along Historic Route 20.

The Catskills retreat of naturalist writer John Burroughs.

This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.

Believe It or Not, Ripley once called this chiseled mountainside “New York’s Mount Rushmore”.

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

Its original statue was deemed so ugly, locals called it “Scary Lucy.”

This museum is dedicated to a Hollywood icon.

The first and only American institution dedicated to the enduring value of comedy in the United States.

This institution pays tribute to an associate justice who protected civil rights and prosecuted Nazis.

This manor in the woods memorializes one of the greatest birders of a generation.

This museum pays tribute to the largest group in the Iroquois Confederacy.

A physical catalog of ceramics made by the now-defunct Celadon Terra Cotta company.

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

An allegedly haunted testament to a local businessman's desire for status, posterity, and charity.

This local landmark is home to art galleries and the area's only community darkroom.

The Binghamton area is home to six of the last remaining hand-carved vintage carousels.

A collection of artifacts from two worldwide industries that called Endicott, NY home.

Visitors to Salt Springs State Park are encouraged to literally put their two cents in Penny Rock.

Constrained by time and topography, this civil engineering landmark was constructed 100 feet above Starrucca Creek over the course of a single year.

At this small shop off a dirt road in the forest, the specialty is eel the owner caught and smoked himself.

Three wooden middle fingers raised in protest.