Places dawnrfifer Wants to Go

This grave marks the passing of a historic Jane Doe whose identity remains a mystery to this day.

A Spiritualist house of worship where believers communicate with the dead in the spirit world.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

The first of Lancaster's "rural cemeteries."

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.

An ancient quarry rediscovered by a dog and claimed by biblical kings, a German cult, and the Freemasons.

Running under an entire mountain, the longest highway tunnel in North America is kept fresh using portal fans and jet fans.

An ancient tunnel in Jerusalem built to redirect water in the event of a siege is one of history’s great architectural innovations.

A field in which God and his son Jesus purportedly appeared to a young farm boy named Joseph Smith.

This vacant church in the Financial District was once the heart of New York's first Syrian immigrant community.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

In the middle of downtown Brooklyn lies a 165 year old secret hidden right below the surface (closed to the public indefinitely).

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

HBO series' stage tucked away in a Greenpoint lot is the largest theatrical set of its kind in the United States.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.

A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

Self-sufficient greenhouse floating on the Hudson River.

These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

This tiny church near Sleepy Hollow contains Henri Matisse's last work, a rose window, and nine windows by Marc Chagall.