Places alessandralee Wants to Go

Hiroshima survivor on Riverside Drive.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

A Gothic-style abode built to accommodate the church's three resident peacocks.

A replica of a 7th-century church hides in plain sight in the middle of the concrete jungle.

The shared home of a utopian commune that practiced "free love" a century before the hippies.

Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.

A Seussian sculpture made of brass instruments.

A unique collection of figures perform down the facade of the Gene Frankel Theatre.

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

This ruined fort hidden at the top of Central Park can't seem to keep from losing its historical plaques.

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

A beautiful final resting place with some surprising residents.

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.

This unique crypt designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his longtime friend was not completed in either man's lifetime.

One of the only single-person private gravesites in New York City.

A small window was installed in this gravestone to honor a young boy's dying wish.

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

This art center is way beyond your average pumpkin-carving operation.