Places cmcurrypowder Wants to Go

The poet's been ambling through these New York woods since 1940.

Astonishing collection of helmets, scientific instruments, and medical models.

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

Waterway populated with abandoned projects, including a submarine.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

Nearly four centuries after its founding, remnants of one of the oldest planned communities in North America are still visible in southern Brooklyn.

Brace yourself for the slowest, scariest, most spectacular drive, down the Drakensberg Escarpment.

A Wes Anderson-esque lighthouse that boasts magnificent coastal views.

An underground nightclub helped spark a "Singing Revolution."

The world's biggest version of the popular Swedish souvenir.

This Kansas City studio was home to Walt Disney's first animation business.

This magnificent Japanese garden provides a moment of Zen in rural Vermont.

In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.

A small Wyoming town is home to the state's oldest-operating soda fountain.

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

The only geyser in the state of Pennsylvania is caused by pressure from an abandoned coal mine outside of the ghost town Centralia.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

This dilapidated castle-like structure overlooks the Hudson River at one of its widest points and was once home to nuns.

Haunted Victorian house that inspired a legendary "Ghostbusters" court ruling.

This tiny church near Sleepy Hollow contains Henri Matisse's last work, a rose window, and nine windows by Marc Chagall.

One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

The second building of its name to occupy this location might be the finest flatiron building in San Francisco.

San Francisco's first World's Fair, dedicated to the wonders of California.