Places Aïda Amer Wants to Go

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

This natural crater along the coast of Jersey may take its name from the devil statues who have watched over it.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

New York's oldest magic store.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

This reclusive Hopi village in Arizona has been continuously populated longer than anywhere else in America.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

Obscure and obsolete publications are given new life as works of art.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.