Tampa, Florida
Gasparilla Pirate Festival
Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Tampa, Florida
Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.
Hillsdale, New York
Eight whimsical acres of metal art.
Chatham, New York
Three acres of mythology-inspired sculptures are visible from the highway.
Little Falls, New York
Not even a series of devastating fires could keep this odd castle in upstate New York from bouncing back.
Roxbury, New York
The former home of a disgraced local priest now hosts a mysterious secret supper club.
New York, New York
Rummage through this sunken ship, but leave your scuba gear at home.
Waterbury, Connecticut
A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.
Old Saybrook, Connecticut
House used in the 1971 horror film "Let's Scare Jessica to Death."
East Lyme, Connecticut
With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.
Washington, Connecticut
New Preston and Kent, Connecticut - where Friday the 13th, Part 2 was filmed.
Southington, Connecticut
The "possessed" house that inspired "The Haunting in Connecticut" book and movie.
Lee, Massachusetts
Journey through vintage Americana inside this small Massachusetts shop.
South Salem, New York
Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.
Bethlehem, Connecticut
These Benedictine nuns have been making artisanal cheeses since before it was cool.
Hyde Park, New York
"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."
Staatsburg, New York
An unassuming island in the middle of the Hudson that hosts campers, including Aleister Crowley.
Rhinebeck, New York
What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.
Albany, New York
The first American home of the isolated, egalitarian religion has a trove of Shaker architecture and artifacts.
Bronx, New York
Because holiday cheer is at its finest when it includes eerie mannequins, right?
New York, New York
A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.
New York, New York
An art installation commemorates journalist Nellie Bly's undercover reporting inside a New York asylum.
Bronx, New York
Hidden inside one of the world's most well-visited zoos is a secret plaque promising eternal life.
New York, New York
This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.
New York, New York
Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.