Places eharjes Wants to Go

The floor-to-ceiling collection in an old factory is a unique alternative to stuffy galleries.

The last slot car racing arcade in Brooklyn is keeping the dream of speedy little autos alive.

Every animal in the torah taxidermied and crammed into a Brooklyn townhouse.

This huge pile of volcanic boulders hides a stunning network of secret grottoes.

This former sugarcane transport tunnel is now a portal to a lovely beach.

This small primate research island is teeming with playing, fighting wild monkeys.

This niche museum devoted to ancient religious artifacts is shaped like the very thing it displays.

The highest peak in Puerto Rico is home to a rare fern that can only be found on six trees at its summit.

This limestone cave offers an incredible view of the Río Grande de Arecibo valley.

The world's second largest single-dish radio telescope, once used to contact E.T.

On this Puerto Rican island, many abandoned naval ammunition bunkers sit open while a few have been padlocked by locals as personal storage.

The world's brightest bioluminescent bay.

Rusting, graffiti-covered tanks litter the beach of this island, once used by the U.S. military for target practice.

A working monastery hidden away in Brooklyn once abutted the location of a former inebriate's home.

Waterway populated with abandoned projects, including a submarine.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

The most unloved grain elevator in Brooklyn was a “Magnificent Mistake.”

Walk through depictions of the torture inflicted on those who go to Buddhist hell.

The first American home of the isolated, egalitarian religion has a trove of Shaker architecture and artifacts.

Collection maintained by the legendary designer.

The original Uncle Sam was actually a New York meatpacker who is buried under this historic grave.

Not even a series of devastating fires could keep this odd castle in upstate New York from bouncing back.

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

Celebrating the greatest pugilists the world has ever known.