Places patricklongmire Wants to Go

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

Curtiss is a forgotten figure in the early history of flight.

A living antique aviation museum in the historic town of Red Hook, New York.

A prized globe signed by Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh sits in the Brooklyn office of the American Geographical Society.

All that remains of one of the Civil War's more deadly POW camps is a simple flagstone.

The humble fort that saved Washington.

A plaque immortalizes the spot where the early American spy said his famous last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

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

Golden plates containing what would become the Book of Mormon were believed to be buried on this New York hillside.

A monument to the military service of America's greatest traitor refuses to even name him.

Fossilized sea bottom and lime quarry.

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

A gazebo that inspired the fifth episode of the "Twilight Zone" still stands in the creator's hometown

The site of William McKinley's tragic assassination is only marked by an underwhelming boulder.

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

Con Edison’s exotic and heat-loving pests.

A field in which God and his son Jesus purportedly appeared to a young farm boy named Joseph Smith.

The original Uncle Sam was actually a New York meatpacker who is buried under this historic grave.

Some of the earliest burial grounds of New York State are to be found hidden away in this quaint town.

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

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

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

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.