Places Scott Forsythe Wants to Go

Once a flowing stream and where the USS Monitor, the world's first ironclad, was built and launched.

Fabrication workshop where the encasement for One World Trade Center's beacon was constructed.

An unassuming stone building houses New York City's oldest seismic station almost 30 feet below the Bronx.

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

Even for Egyptian royalty, the afterlife was bring-your-own-beef.

Legendary private island in the Bronx...devoid of rats.

On the hills of Bay Ridge stands a house straight out of a fairy tale.

The smallest island in Manhattan is a manmade landfill dominated by a Buddhist peace arch.

Site of the first pathological and bacteriological research facility in the United States.

This hidden oasis features a stunning view of the Hudson River and the Palisades from a castle-like museum.

A mysterious, abandoned building rotting on the Brooklyn waterfront.

At this hidden studio, the dying art of taxidermy is alive and well.

Play heads or tails with thousands of different coins.

A one-ton statue of Steve Rogers beautifies the entry to a Brooklyn Bed, Bath & Beyond.

This was one of the first (and last) university-built and operated nuclear reactors.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

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

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

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

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

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.

There’s a secret bunker inside the Brooklyn Bridge, but the city won’t say where.

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