Places esftripod Wants to Go

A former connection to City Island, it has been abandoned since the 1930s.

A crumbling staircase in upper Manhattan is all that remains of one of the most important sites in sports history.

The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

The birthplace of America's favorite fruit-flavored mystery dessert.

An old dining hall now serves up ghost stories for lusty locals.

Final resting place of two dozen New York City harbor ships.

A prohibition era watering hole for the police.

Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

This locally-famous crevasse in New York State is icy all year round.

Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.

This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

This natural rock "church" might not be a proper chapel but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.

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

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

The first "Hall of Fame" in America was designed by legendary Gilded Age architect Stanford White for what was then the NYU uptown campus.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.

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

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

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