Places rbowptown Wants to Go

The great American road trip, but smaller.

This dilapidated castle-like structure overlooks the Hudson River at one of its widest points and was once home to nuns.

Haunted Victorian house that inspired a legendary "Ghostbusters" court ruling.

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

A formerly abandoned mental institute, now back in business.

Pluto is still considered a planet in Ithaca, New York.

This throwback amusement park is home to rides and unique storybook figures from the past.

An isolated beacon with a history of grisly murder and a view of some of literature's greatest inspirations.

The home, museum, and death site of Kodak's influential founder.

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

A collection of the best toys ever made inside a museum devoted to play.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

A historic recreation of the golden age of the Erie Canal, abandoned for some time, slowly being restored.

This art center is way beyond your average pumpkin-carving operation.

A perfect replica of the beloved show's first set.

A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.

World's largest herd of white deer populate a former U.S. Army depot.

An old dining hall now serves up ghost stories for lusty locals.

The largest known open fault in the United States is basically a giant natural refrigerator.

This once-grand marvel of engineering is now 41 miles of scenic hiking trail.

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

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

See wolves, coyotes, and arctic foxes in a natural environment smack in the middle of New York State.