Places sweetm917 Wants to Go

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

The only remaining historic maritime signal station in the United States.

A collection of over 15,000 zines works to preserve DIY publishing culture.

Some big-name visitors have patronized this small-town library named for an oil man's daughter.

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

This abandoned neighborhood is now a park filled with beautiful trees, wildflowers, and hints of its past.

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

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

Homemade rockets, dinosaurs, and robots make this New York small business much more than a furniture store.

This whimsically unique butterfly farm focuses solely on creating habitats for the gentle insects.

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

This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.

This one-man homegrown eatery may be the world's most exclusive restaurant with its five-year waiting list.

A living antique aviation museum in the historic town of Red Hook, New York.

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

An enormous cat made of recycled wood scraps.

The schoolhouse where Jesse Merwin, the inspiration for the "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" character, once taught.

The former residence of Elizabeth “Mumbet” Freeman, an enslaved African-American woman who successfully sued for her freedom.

Herman Melville wrote 'Moby Dick' in this landmark 18th-century house surrounded by farmland.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

Eight whimsical acres of metal art.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.