Places act10ng1rl Wants to Go

This ruined temple's giant Buddha statue bears the scars of the Second Indochina War.

More than 200 statues filled with cryptic symbols give this park spot an aura of horror vacui fantasy.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

A living antique aviation museum in the historic town of Red Hook, New York.

This once sprawling resort now sits abandoned, filled with graffiti and vibrant colors from an era long passed.

The phone booths of New York City have all but disappeared, but their remains were once found in this "graveyard," sadly now removed as well.

An enormous cat made of recycled wood scraps.

The first evidence of some of the Earth's earliest life was found in this fossilized undersea grotto.

The schoolhouse where Jesse Merwin, the inspiration for the "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" character, once taught.

A young woman's senseless murder led to the controversial psychological theory of the "bystander effect."

A retired subway car stands alone in a field in the middle of Queens.

This lovely little pond is named after the hundreds of soldiers' corpses that were rolled into the waters during the French-Indian War.

"Call for the doctor, call for the nurse... Vote!! said the lady with the alligator purse."

The gravestone of the suffragist leader attracted extra visitors during the 2016 election.

An old dining hall now serves up ghost stories for lusty locals.

One of many reminders of Tesla's scientific contributions overlooks the falls which inspired him.

This outpost of America's most popular fast-food restaurant is housed inside a palatial mansion.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

For over 80 years, Mayan ruins stood proudly in a most unlikely location.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.