Places ArthurGartner Wants to Go

This unusual lava tube spouts seawater during high surf.

Get up close and personal with these majestic fish.

A tunnel of hardened lava along Maui’s famous Road to Hana.

During the solar phenomenon "Lahaina Noon" this bendy, curvy sculpture forms a perfectly circular shadow on the ground.

A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.

Climbing this abandoned railway leads to breathtaking vistas of O‘ahu.

This WWII plane died a quiet death, and is now a garden eel playground.

A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.

Island of trash twice the size of Texas floats in the Pacific.

An abandoned coal mine reached by a steep hike.

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

This maze-like slot canyon is a unique gem within an already fascinating geological area.

4,000 monkeys used for medical testing on an island off of South Carolina.

This humble historic facade hides a history of boozing and the gentlemanly sport of rat-fighting.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

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

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

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

Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."

A well-worn marker in a forgotten alleyway is all that remains of what had been one of Manhattan's most beautiful buildings.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

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