Places Megan Johnson Wants to Go

This small road tunnel is the only place where you can cross beneath the Erie Canal.

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

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

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.

The home of aviation trailblazers, in a remote corner of the big city.

Take in a rare, face-to-face glimpse of Lady Liberty at this tucked away Red Hook park.

The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

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

This tiny little island has, as the name says, just enough room for its single house.

Final resting place of two dozen New York City harbor ships.

An isolated beacon with a history of grisly murder and a view of some of literature's greatest inspirations.

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

This outpost of America's most popular fast-food restaurant is housed inside a palatial mansion.

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

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

This natural rock "church" might not be a proper chapel but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.

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

A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

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

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."