Places cpmaverick Wants to Go

It could once load ships with tons of coal in an hour before its closing in 1952.

This recently rediscovered Civil War-era submarine was the first to ever sink an enemy ship.

First established in 1696, this settlement was abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

Tour the oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

The only free-standing, vertical sundial in the US was keeping standard time before it was even invented.

This natural spring not only claims to heal the wounded but it has also been willed to God.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

This mansion turned restaurant was once a pitstop for Al Capone during his travels.

One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

This coastal port saw one of the most significant battles of the Civil War.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

The last remnants of what was once one of the world's grandest hotels can now be found in a Manhattan subway station.

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

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

The former sign of this immortal music venue is just that--undying.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

Some of the best Persian food in New York comes from the front window of an unassuming pizza shop.

A grand New York post office that is home to mailman Santas, scraps of postal history, and a pneumatic mail system.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

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

These giant sculptures are supported by a bizarre menagerie of feet.

Where scientists keep miles of very valuable ice from Antarctica and Greenland from melting.