Places crackdogx Wants to Go

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

This dilapidated ship carcass covered in trees is a striking sight.

Overlooking Puget Sound sits a garden with a Buddhist prayer wheel and an elaborate labyrinth.

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

The Arctic Archipelago is home to world's largest third order island: an island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

The floor of this spectacular Baroque sanctuary is covered in memento mori.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

This quiet neighborhood is also home to a 700-ton rock transported by the last Ice Age.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

A tiny collection of traditional Japanese woodblock prints, open only when the owner feels like it.

Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.

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.

A delightfully quirky blend of oddities spread throughout an old 1920s bank.

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

Reverend Franzo Wayne King administers spiritual enlightenment through the music of the jazz legend.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.