Places badgersofdoom Wants to Go

A wooden prison doesn't sound like a good idea, yet this abandoned 1950s detention center still stands today.

This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

Once-buried markers show England’s lowest land point keeps getting lower.

Once the foundation for a mansion, these ruins now offer amazing panoramic coastal views.

Inside this museum, visitors venture through ghost stories entrenched in Icelandic folklore.

A "station to nowhere" marks the site of a Siberian subway project that never saw the light of day.

The ominously named cave is home to some remarkable ancient art.

Inside this sculpture park are dozens of woodcrafts crafted by the gentle hands of a chainsaw.

Abandoned ships along a deserted beach feel like the set of a post-apocalyptic thriller.

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

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

Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.

A millionaire's abandoned swimming pool from the gilded age of one of America's most distinguished families.

These mouldering mansion ruins remember a time when the Catskills were nothing but luxury.

This derelict building used to house infirm Freemasons, their widows, and orphans.

The abandoned ruins of America's first private zoo are open for exploration in the Catskills.

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

See wolves, coyotes, and arctic foxes in a natural environment smack in the middle of New York State.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

Eclectic architecture in the woods of New York.

Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.

The birthplace of America's favorite fruit-flavored mystery dessert.

Created by four famous men, the beautifully designed Buffalo State Asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center, but still boasts a ghost story or two.

Discovered by cows, these upstate New York show caves are presented with a healthy dose of psychedelic folk art.