Places RobinL2 Wants to Go

A formerly abandoned mental institute, now back in business.

The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.

The great American road trip, but smaller.

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

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

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

This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.

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

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

These mouldering mansion ruins remember a time when the Catskills were nothing but luxury.

The remains of what was once the world's steepest passenger funicular.

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

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

A peaceful international sculpture garden in upstate New York.

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

Quite possibly the last cross all humans will ever see.

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

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

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

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

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

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

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

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