Places badgersofdoom Wants to Go

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

A deteriorating 1990s Girl Scout camp in a beautiful lush park on Lake Ontario.

For over 80 years, Mayan ruins stood proudly in a most unlikely location.

This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground

Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

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

Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.

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

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.

Hundreds of numbered stakes hidden in the woods mark the graves of the lost souls of a nearby asylum.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

This throwback amusement park is home to rides and unique storybook figures from the past.

A sewing machine tycoon built this miniature castle for the people and to beautify a lakeshore.

The great American road trip, but smaller.

A room hidden behind a swinging shelf in the children's section.

A tiny islet just off Long Island offers a wealth of infectious curiosities.