Places chowker Wants to Go

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

A historic 1890s architectural masterpiece with an iconic clock tower that, once open to the public, now faces an uncertain future.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

The mystery of this small, brick pond eluded its possibly only investigator until his death.

Cemetery established by the Victorians as a solution to the overflowing graveyards.

A hundred copies of Antony Gormley's naked body stare out across the water.

Hidden on the urban banks of a Manchester river are a series of abandoned waterside industrial sites.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.