Places boydestruction Wants to Go

The remains of a historic ranch house that witnessed the Civil War battle dubbed the “Gettysburg of the West.”

Seller of surplus nuclear research materials.

A serene garden path lined with 36 haiku stamped into clay stones.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

This collection of over 50 classic pinball machines awaits visitors to downtown Roanoke.

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

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.

This Queens hospital has stood abandoned for almost 20 years after its patients were secretly relocated in the dead of night.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

Volunteer-run library dedicated to exploring five decades of activism history.

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

A heartbreaking monument showing the last morning in the life of Jane Griffith.

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

The ballpark in "Pigtown" where the Brooklyn Dodgers made their name was replaced with a huge apartment complex.