Places WanderTheRoad Wants to Go

This octagonal rotary jail built in 1889 now serves as a visitor's center.

Thousands of hats, pens, and pencils, hanging inside the walls of a former church.

The world's largest covered wagon is piloted by a giant Lincoln lawyer.

This roadside dinosaur park offered up lumpy neon thunder lizards in the name of kitsch and education.

An enormous cat made of recycled wood scraps.

A trove of century-old litho stones from the Puck Building's printing days were discovered behind a cellar wall, and are now hanging in the store.

This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.

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

The Catskills retreat of naturalist writer John Burroughs.

This picturesque cottage was the site of Ulysses S. Grant’s final and perhaps most important campaign.

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

A small Second Empire-style building is one of only seven remaining lighthouses on the Hudson River.

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

An allegedly haunted testament to a local businessman's desire for status, posterity, and charity.

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

On the hills of Bay Ridge stands a house straight out of a fairy tale.

One patriotic farmer's ode to the 9/11 tragedy remains even after the farm changed hands.

A tribute to the hard-working men and women of Grumman, who crafted F-14 fighter jets.

This giant rock arrived at this quiet park thousands of years ago on the back of a massive glacier.

The rare American Civil War-era weapon was never fired in anger.

Hike deep into the woods to explore this Gilded Age masterpiece.

An off the grid woodland retreat that harkens back to days long forgotten.

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

The final resting place of some of Staten Island's earliest settlers and their descendants.