Places thelonesomeroad Wants to Go

An eccentric playboy's astounding natural history collection.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

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.

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

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

The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.

The home, museum, and death site of Kodak's influential founder.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

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

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

This Queens beer hall preserves a German culture and language that is all but lost.

The best B-movies filmed on a shoestring budget were born here.

Discovered by cows, these upstate New York show caves are presented with a healthy dose of psychedelic folk art.

The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.

One of the last taxidermists in New York City.

Offbeat arts organization that hosts exhibitions, events, and explorations.

An easy to overlook storefront hides some of the most authentic and regionally diverse Chinese food in New York.

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

Enormous one time fiber mill now houses local artists and small businesses.