Places SamWPiano Wants to Go

On this island, you suck away your garbage via an elaborate pneumatic tube system.

A remnant of the original World Trade Center complex continues to serve as a commuter gateway.

Tucked away on the second floor of a small town library is one of the great private Victorian taxidermy collections looking today very much like it did in 1909.

The mass grave of a heroic Revolutionary War regiment sits below an empty lot near the Gowanus Canal.

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.

This statue commemorates the meeting of the most influential minds of the women’s rights movement.

Now the final resting place of prominent artists and musicians, it was originally founded to separate the rich from the poor in death.

This oversize piece of novelty cookware once cooked the largest pancake in the world.

This overlooked gem outside Niagara Falls preserves and celebrates Iroquois culture.

Glacial erratic or man-made dolmen? It probably wasn't druids.

A menagerie of concrete animals brought together from across New York City's parks.

This eclectic sculpture garden in Brooklyn, home to a bizarre collection of art, was once a run-down junkyard.

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

An antique cemetery in New York, this land is home to any number of famed corpses.

This seemingly unremarkable boulder is said to bear the hoofprint of the devil himself.

This unique crypt designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his longtime friend was not completed in either man's lifetime.

Final resting place for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire’s unidentified victims.

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.

The great American road trip, but smaller.

One kilometer of thick brass rod laid out before your eyes.

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

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