Places Alexander J. Zawacki Wants to Go

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

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

Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.

A visionary Italian architect created an impressive cluster of concrete structures for a family's private tomb.

An enigmatic natural rock formation with a manmade passage cut through the center.

An ideal wedding spot that is almost too ideal.

It would take 35 firetrucks to fill this enormous glacial pothole.

A tradition unlike any other, this marks the site of the annual Groundhog's Day tradition.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."

Rusting away on the edge of New Jersey are the remains of a Cold War missile launch site.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

Discover the taste of mold.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

On this island, you suck away your garbage via an elaborate pneumatic tube system.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.