Places sierrawest Wants to Go

This 19th century brick building in Brooklyn stands out like the anachronistic landmark that it is.

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

A large camera obscura, constructed entirely from digitally fabricated components.

A working monastery hidden away in Brooklyn once abutted the location of a former inebriate's home.

A memorial to the first person killed by a motor vehicle in the Western Hemisphere.

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

Believe It or Not, Ripley once called this chiseled mountainside “New York’s Mount Rushmore”.

A monument stands to the famous suffragist who penned the declaration for women's equal rights, including the right to vote.

The first pet cemetery in the United States.

Brooklyn vintners creating world-class wine in a city not known for its vineyards.

A small part of lower Manhattan is actually made from a bit of England.

A former poultry store that looks like a giant duck and is one of the "seven wonders" of Long Island.

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

A field in which God and his son Jesus purportedly appeared to a young farm boy named Joseph Smith.

This graceful little figure is a one-of-a-kind version of the cherished character.

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

Some of the earliest burial grounds of New York State are to be found hidden away in this quaint town.

A heartbreaking monument showing the last morning in the life of Jane Griffith.

A young woman's senseless murder led to the controversial psychological theory of the "bystander effect."

A one-ton statue of Steve Rogers beautifies the entry to a Brooklyn Bed, Bath & Beyond.

Secluded amid upstate New York’s Adirondack Mountains lies this subterranean emblem of a nation on the brink of nuclear war. And it's for sale.

A bronze ballot box stands at the spot where Susan B. Anthony voted illegally.

This Manhattan museum houses one of the largest collections of Spanish art and manuscripts outside of Spain.

Hundreds of numbered stakes hidden in the woods mark the graves of the lost souls of a nearby asylum.