Places dochertyroisin1 Wants to Go

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

Markets and festivals take place at this former home of a 1,500-seat theater, which burned to the ground in 2019.

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

The remnants of a 19th-century ironmaking complex hidden in the woods of Connecticut.

Astonishing collection of helmets, scientific instruments, and medical models.

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

This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.

Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

Reforestation in action is the main attraction in this abandoned quarry.

In Cold Spring, New York, a shrine containing Godzilla and an assortment of plastic dinosaurs stands dedicated to a teenager who died in a car accident in 1996.

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

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

Forgotten under the construction of a new urban roadway is a small, abandoned part of town.

Connecticut sites linked to the only trial to ever use demonic possession as a criminal defense.

Glacial erratic or man-made dolmen? It probably wasn't druids.