Places Beth Ogando Wants to Go

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

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

All that remains of a magnate's dream home is a historic gate and an abandoned public pool.

An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.

Six peaceful acres in a residential neighborhood dedicated to art and peace.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

The most unloved grain elevator in Brooklyn was a “Magnificent Mistake.”

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

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.