Places Edited by Dylan Thuras

This lush area was the site of extensive enemy bombing during WWII.

Where's a guy to go after a long, hard day at work?

What’s a sure fire way to end up in jail in New York in the 1920s? Peddling bad moonshine.

Compensation for the destruction of a historic shipyard.

Where there’s manufacturing, there’s fire!

A strip of modern stores in historic buildings.

The engineering feat of the Panama Canal was possible in small part thanks to materials developed in this humble Red Hook foundry.

Two monstrous warehouses. One now holds priceless works of art, the other stands abandoned and dilapidated.

The factory that helped produce a dominant form of lighting before Thomas Edison.

Once home to the country's most gargantuan ships, this graving dock now waits for people to buy furniture.

One of two side-by-side totem pole parks dedicated to educating visitors on Tlingit history and culture.

Huge concrete structures designed as an early warning system for Britain to detect enemy aircraft.

Meet some of the most prominent figures in Black history through life-sized wax models.

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

The small cave that housed Tennessee's "first citizen."

Second largest wastewater treatment plant in the country.

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

A unique opportunity to stay the night in retrofitted sections of sewer pipe.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

A community theatre in Brooklyn that brings Country to New York and New York to Country.

Come stay at a live-in art installation.

A shrine on the shores of the Tigris.

This abandoned radar station from the Cold War era now only broadcasts a seriously ominous air of isolation.