Places Crabeater Wants to Go

The only boathouse Frank Lloyd Wright ever designed was also the only unbuilt structure in his famous Wasmuth Portfolio, until 2007.

A riverfront park that both remediated and preserved its industrial past.

Home to the abandoned Tioronda Hat Works Factory, this park is a combination of woodlands and marshlands.

Hike deep into the woods to explore this Gilded Age masterpiece.

Want to build a wind turbine? Secede from the nation.

Built in the 1920s, this co-op in the Bronx feels more like an Italian villa than a typical New York apartment building.

In 1986, Keith Haring was arrested for painting this anti-drug mural on a Harlem handball court.

A man used his Civil War-era fortune to build this sanctuary in memory of his wife.

This elaborate High Victorian Gothic structure is one of the world's few 16-sided buildings.

The famous facade of Grand Central Terminal hides a regulation tennis court—and it's not the first one.

A tiny islet just off Long Island offers a wealth of infectious curiosities.

This Frank Lloyd Wright summer house was designed along Lake Erie as a retreat for a client's wife.

This isolated community does not want you to visit.

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.

This 19th century brick building in Brooklyn stands out like the anachronistic landmark that it is.

This fancifully decorated Victorian home in New York’s Hudson Valley is the only known fully domed octagonal residence in the United States.

A replica of a 7th-century church hides in plain sight in the middle of the concrete jungle.

An unassuming island in the middle of the Hudson that hosts campers, including Aleister Crowley.

Secluded amid upstate New York’s Adirondack Mountains lies this subterranean emblem of a nation on the brink of nuclear war. And it's for sale.

This forlorn park is the result of a failed investment turned tax dodge.

This island castle contains enough secret passageways to support a season of Scooby-Doo episodes.

The largest guitar store in the world has been visited by some of music's all-time greats passing through upstate New York.

This sprawling woodland estate was the brainchild of iconic American industrial designer Russel Wright.

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.