Places Crabeater Wants to Go

Con Edison’s exotic and heat-loving pests.

This abandoned ironworks was once the most important military supplier in America.

This unique crypt designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his longtime friend was not completed in either man's lifetime.

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

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

The largest Buddha statue in the Western Hemisphere is just 50 miles north of NYC.

A sewing machine tycoon built this miniature castle for the people and to beautify a lakeshore.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

Buffalo's abandoned concrete grain elevators are getting a second life.

Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

Ruins of a once-prized railroad station in New York.

The remains of what was once the world's steepest passenger funicular.

Created by four famous men, the beautifully designed Buffalo State Asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center, but still boasts a ghost story or two.

Rat sculptures try to infiltrate the Graybar Building in an architectural tribute to New York City's nautical history.

A perfect replica of the beloved show's first set.

A 19th century hat factory still stands as a crumbling ruin in upstate New York.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest—and favorite—architectural masterpieces was almost lost.

An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.

The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.

Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.

For over 80 years, Mayan ruins stood proudly in a most unlikely location.

A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.