Places dorcasdesign Wants to Go

A "Titanic" superfan changed his name to Jack and set up this strange shrine to the blockbuster, complete with Korean food and Tarot readings.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

Homemade rockets, dinosaurs, and robots make this New York small business much more than a furniture store.

Now the final resting place of prominent artists and musicians, it was originally founded to separate the rich from the poor in death.

A peaceful international sculpture garden in upstate New York.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

The largest known open fault in the United States is basically a giant natural refrigerator.

Feral cats keeping the rodent population at bay all across Greenpoint waterfront.

Enormous one time fiber mill now houses local artists and small businesses.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles