Places Opossumsmossum Wants to Go

A small Second Empire-style building is one of only seven remaining lighthouses on the Hudson River.

This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.

The dairy farm in upstate New York where nearly half a million people gathered for three days of peace and music in 1969.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

You must take the A train... to the last active cemetery in Manhattan.

A monument stands to the famous suffragist who penned the declaration for women's equal rights, including the right to vote.

The home of former Heavyweight Boxing Champion, "Gentleman Jim" Corbett.

The life of one of FDR's possible mistresses is preserved in her palatial Hudson Valley mansion.

These dramatic cola-colored falls have appeared in a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and a song by Sufjan Stevens.

A peaceful international sculpture garden in upstate New York.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

A whimsical monument deep in this park commemorates the groups that helped build it.

A sculptural commentary on capitalism pokes up from the East River.

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

New York's oldest and possibly grandest keeper of books.

In 1986, Keith Haring was arrested for painting this anti-drug mural on a Harlem handball court.

Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.

Where the four original members of the Ramones hung out and revolutionized punk rock.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

An unoccupied lighthouse encased in layers of ice from the waters of Lake Erie.

One of Detroit’s oldest blues clubs stands in defiance of the passage of time and the city’s shifting fortunes.