Ah, yes! The good old Jefferson Starship, rising like the Phoenix from the ashes of the Jefferson Airplane!
There are some decent, $200-300 telescopes (6-8") that can show you some galaxies, especially under darker skies. (Orion Telescopes has great info on buying scopes and a good selection.) They're also great for bright star clusters, nebula, and the planets. Saturn's rings are just incredible through a scope.
I have a 7" scope and, even though I live in a small city suburb with semi-light polluted skies, I can observe galaxies that are 20-40 million light years right from my backyard!
There's lots of things to see with the naked eye, too. If you've never watched the International Space Station go across the sky, you're in for a real treat.
After Hurricane Irene went through--and cleaned out the skies here of all the usual debris--I saw the Andromeda Galaxy with the unaided eye for the first time! Amazing!
And, to keep this on topic, there are incredible astronomy apps for the iPod Touch for free or little cost (sky charts, NASA, astronomy picture of the day APOD, Moon map and phases, 3D Sun shows the Sun in different wavelengths with all its activity, Planets where they are, satellite tracking, Exoplanets showing all the latest discoveries of planets around other stars, etc.)
As to the space station, you can browse to heavens-above.com to find out when the ISS will cross the skies in your location-- or use Sputnik! or ISS Visibility on the i-devices.
Keep looking up!