I'm going to travel to a place I've always wanted to see. It's called Gravity Hill near Olean, New York. It's a hill. However, legend has it you can drive up it with your vehicles in neutral and the ignition turned off. That can't be right. Can it?

I'm meeting Jim Willis on top of Gravity Hill. Jim is from Guys Mills in Crawford County. He sent me a letter a few months ago telling me that his father took him to this very place in 1972 when Jim was seven years old.

"We didn't have a whole lot of money. So our vacations were day trips,” says Jim. “So this would have been a day trip we would have made. Everybody piled into the station wagon, a picnic lunch and off we'd go."

Today, 53-years later, Jim and his wife are at Gravity Hill with their 13-year old son Daniel to experience the feeling of riding in a car coasting up a hill. Something that defies the laws of gravity.

"It's kind of like a tradition. Stuff like that,” says Daniel.

Here they go. They pile back into the car, they have the notes Jim's dad wrote about this place in 1972. Jim parks his car at the spot where his father parked the family station wagon over 50 years ago. Jim puts his car in neutral and the car slowly begins to move.

This is amazing to experience. But, it’s all an illusion. Despite what you see, the car is actually drifting downhill. This delightful deception has been drawing people here for decades. A local resident shows me a newspaper article about Gravity Hill that was published in a Buffalo newspaper in 1955. The headline referred to this place as "Illusion Hill." Brian Gariepy lives on Promised Land Road where Gravity Hill is located.

"It's more noticeable running or on a bike,” he says. “Because you can actually feel your own body working when it should be doing less."

This is a quiet road and it's best to visit when you have the space all to yourself. Then you can drift your vehicle more than once and take video or photographs. If you do come, please be courteous to the residents. I ask Brian if he minds strangers coming into his neighborhood.

“No. No. No,” he says. “As long as they don't take out my mailbox."

Jim Willis, my fellow Pennsylvanian, doesn't remember much about his trip here in 1972. He is happy he returned.

"It was sort of neat to get back here and see what we did many years ago,” he says with a smile.

Gravity Hill is located on Promised Land Road near Olean, NY. It's 100 miles from Erie. It's best to drive to the end of the road, turn your vehicle around, and stop at a roadside marker that says 1015. Put your vehicle in neutral, turn off the ignition, and give it a try. Here’s a tip. You enjoy the illusion even better when someone records it on video.