Places sierrawest Wants to Go

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

A memorial to the 1913 tragedy that helped protect the workers of the future.

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

An unassuming stone building houses New York City's oldest seismic station almost 30 feet below the Bronx.

Headquarters of the world's fourth largest Hasidic sect and the first of many "770s" around the world.

If you were standing here on October 5th, 1950, you'd be dead.

A 13,000-year-old mastodon skeleton was found during the construction of a 19th-century New York mill.

Dozens of houses in the Adirondack Mountains are reminders of a literal "cottage industry" to cure people of a deadly disease.

This exhibit allows visitors to wander through the interior of a replica Ice Age glacial cave.

A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.

A retired oil tanker now offering amazing views of New York City.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

This restored house is like a time capsule of the president's unconventional inauguration.

The last standing puppet theater on Long Island.

Even for Egyptian royalty, the afterlife was bring-your-own-beef.

This edgy museum will whet your appetite for the industrial history of Western New York.

A historic home with ties to the abolition and suffrage movements.

Curtiss is a forgotten figure in the early history of flight.

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

It wouldn't be long after purchasing this farm, Brown would lead his siege on Harper's Ferry.

This recently uncovered ad for Lindsay's run at Mayor in 1965 had been hiding for decades underneath a billboard.

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

Alexander Milliner, a favorite of General Washington, is interred at Mt. Hope Cemetery along with 80 other Revolutionary War veterans.

A giant roll of mints marks the birthplace of one of America's most famous candy brands.