Places dorcasdesign Wants to Go

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

Whimsical artist house in the New Jersey woods.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

A one-of-a-kind sundial at the Very Large Array honors a radio astronomy pioneer, incorporating the original piers from his breakthrough radio telescope.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage tiles.

A Swiss board game museum housed inside a picture-perfect castle.

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

This secret cemetery where no flag is allowed to fly holds the bodies of American soldiers convicted of heinous crimes during WWII.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

The world's largest collection of garden gnomes lives among the trees and wildflowers on this woodland reserve.

Instead of hoofing it up steep stairs, residents can hitch a ride on this private lift.

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.