Places rbowptown Wants to Go

Home to the abandoned Tioronda Hat Works Factory, this park is a combination of woodlands and marshlands.

A rusted blade sticks out from the trunk of this tree, left as a memorial to a young man who left to fight in the Civil War but never returned home.

A waterway covered over after the Industrial Revolution has been unearthed and cleaned up, for the enjoyment of fish and humans alike.

This Upstate New York park squeezes a lot of history into its two-acre triangular space.

An interesting look into 18th-century American history.

An Adirondacks museum housed in the former studio of Marcella Sembrich, the 19th century opera star most famous for her role of Mimi in "La Boheme."

A masked wrestling legend has opened the first U.S. course devoted to a meditative Japanese golf variant.

More than 350 million years ago, western New York was covered in a vast sea. Today, you can dig up the remains of the plants and animals that lived there.

A quaint village in Western New York named after Alexander Hamilton's beloved sister-in-law.

The small burial plot is located in a mall parking lot.

Thousands of bottles that have held everything from poison to perfume make up the collection of this small museum.

This relic of 19th-century infrastructure is one of the few remaining coal gas storage tanks in the U.S.

The "last holdout of the Confederacy” actually sat at the edge of the Canadian border.

The private island of Yale's elite Skull & Bones society is kind of a dump.

A historic lighthouse steeped in rumors of ghost and pirate stories.

This museum pays tribute to the largest group in the Iroquois Confederacy.

Etchings in a pile of boulders on the Long Island Sound are a monument to vanquished native peoples.

Take an underground boat ride through a former hydraulic raceway that was built in the late 19th century.

Three gardens with toilets and urinals filled with bright flowers started as a protest against zoning rules.

Hike deep into the woods to explore this Gilded Age masterpiece.

The remains of the furnace and iron works that produced the massive Hudson River Chain still stand in the woods of New York.

This fancifully decorated Victorian home in New York’s Hudson Valley is the only known fully domed octagonal residence in the United States.

In the mid-19th century, an eight-sided house was the latest fad.

This former hub for crafty philosophers was founded by a writer who died aboard the infamous RMS Lusitania.