Places Pengwn Wants to Go

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

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

An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.

This graceful little figure is a one-of-a-kind version of the cherished character.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

The second-largest (of only two in the world) large particle collider is the underdog of experimental physics.

A former poultry store that looks like a giant duck and is one of the "seven wonders" of Long Island.

This tiny church near Sleepy Hollow contains Henri Matisse's last work, a rose window, and nine windows by Marc Chagall.

Oldest existing wire suspension bridge in the United States.

A winding, cliffside stretch of road overlooking the Delaware River.

Adherence to strict Jewish laws is required to enter this ultra-conservative New York village.

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

This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.

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

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

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

The lost town of Neversink, sunk by New York City.

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

A fictional town that was briefly brought to life before fading once again out of existence.

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

The purported world's shortest international bridge connects a homeowner in Canada to his backyard in New York.