Places Crabeater Wants to Go

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

Not even a series of devastating fires could keep this odd castle in upstate New York from bouncing back.

A forsaken wonder in the middle of the East Side neighborhood.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

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

This Central New York ghost town was once a prosperous railroad community.

Hidden in one of New York's oldest subway stations is the final remnant of the site of the bizarre Shakespeare Riots.

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

A deteriorating 1990s Girl Scout camp in a beautiful lush park on Lake Ontario.

A historic 1890s architectural masterpiece with an iconic clock tower that, once open to the public, now faces an uncertain future.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

A six-story treehouse offers spectacular views of New York's Finger Lakes region.

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.

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.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.