Put Buffalo, NY On Your Travel Bucket List! You Won’t Regret It!

Put Buffalo, NY On Your Travel Bucket List! You Won’t Regret It!

So many times when visitors are looking for a place in New York State to get away for a weekend they seem to always focus on some pretty reliable locales.  The Finger Lakes, Cooperstown, Woodstock, Lake George, Ithaca, Lake Placid, and the small towns of the Catskills, Hudson River Valley, and the Adirondacks.  All are regulars on a drawn up list of places to visit in Upstate New York.

But do not miss the city of Buffalo!!

This writer has been to Buffalo countless times and each visit is always fulfilling and very interesting.  Great restaurants, fascinating historic sites, wonderful art and entertainment, vibrant neighborhoods, and world-class architecture.  And sports!

This gallery is a short "must see"  "must do" list for any first time visitor to Buffalo to refer to when planning a "bucket list visit" here.  Of course, there are many other places, but for this writer, these 10 are a great place to begin exploring.

We would like our readers to help us expand this list to 20 or more other items to place on it.  Perhaps you have a favorite "secret place" in the city that you would like to share with us?  Or maybe a tavern or restaurant with a fun past to it?  Or maybe an event you have attended and can share some experience of it with us over on our Facebook page.

Please let us know.  We really do want to hear from you!

Buffalo's Wonders: Food, Art, History, Architecture, Entertainment, And Some Great Oddities!

The city of Buffalo remains one of the great cities in the East. A visit here is a wonder. So much has happened in the "Nickel City" over the years, and it is all on display here. From world class art museums, to one of the most magnificent cemeteries in New York, to great restaurants, massive and elegant architecture, and a whole lot of New York and United States history. All on display for you to explore!

This gallery gives you a 10 point primer to your first (or second) visit to this great city. As you will see, many of these places offer tours and they are all worth penciling in on your next Buffalo visit "bucket list."

This writer's favorite? Silo City. I am always amazed at how Buffalo saved the world's largest collection of grain elevators for today and the future. These bemouth sentinels to the past remind one of the energy and excitment of halcyon days of Buffalo when it was the busiest port in America, right after New York City. Amazing sight to see.

Gallery Credit: Chuck DImperio

Meet Your Friendly Ghosts On These Great Upstate NY Haunted Walking Tours!

Ghost and haunted stories are the order of the day when we reach the middle of October. And Upstate New York has plenty of ways for you to get in touch with your own supernatural favorites. This gallery looks at a bunch of fun haunted ghost walking tours in Upstate New York. The leaders of these tours, many of them in costume, will regale you along your midnight (or earlier) walks through haunted buildings, old cemeteries, and places where the unexplainable happened. Walk the streets of Albany and Utica and Rochester and here some real chilling tales. Take a tour of the creepy but historic old Rolling Hills Asylum where inmates are said to be still trying to get out. Walk through a haunted 1928 movie palace, and a couple of great mansions. All are fun for you this "haunted season."

Gallery Credit: Chuck DImperio

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