Places coledrobison Wants to Go

This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.

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

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

These 100-year-old tunnels in downtown Provo house artists, restaurants, and a few surprises.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

An institution dedicated to the towering buildings that make up skylines in New York City and around the world.

The only subway station in the city that still makes use of gap fillers.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

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

Contractors in this Oregon town have been stamping their names in sidewalks since 1908.

This 85-foot-long table is made from a single slice of an old-growth Douglas Fir.

The only completed wing of Utah's first capitol is filled with artifacts and odd stories about its past.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

An empty mine that some believe will suddenly be filled with fortune and treasures at the end of the world.