Places sierrawest Wants to Go

NYC's legendary underground network for bovine transportation.

Three-story slide through the New Museum.

Visit the site of a subway powered by nothing more than air--and lots of it.

Abandoned 19th century homes once occupied by naval officers, soon to be demolished.

Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.

This once luxurious Catskills resort is now a haunting ruin.

Walk over a 150 year old manhole.

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

Take a trip back to the 1950s and the heyday of the road trip along Historic Route 20.

A plaque on a rock dedicated to a famous, forgotten author, and put in an impossible place.

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

An eerie diorama that captures the majestic nature of a few prehistoric-looking beasts.

Where one of the worst train disasters in the country took place, leading to upgrades in rail safety.

This island castle contains enough secret passageways to support a season of Scooby-Doo episodes.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.

This vessel is believed to be the oldest operating fireboat in the world.

This institution pays tribute to an associate justice who protected civil rights and prosecuted Nazis.

Celebrating the greatest pugilists the world has ever known.

A journey through military artifacts and the history of Cortland.

This poignant display is now a memorial to these regionally extinct species.

A historical home in upstate New York honors the work of John W. Jones, a formerly enslaved man who was a major agent for the Underground Railroad.

Red Hook's massive public pool, built by Robert Moses.

A tiny village in Upstate New York ushered in the precursor to drive-in movies.

These century-old townhouses contain some of the first car garages built in the United States.