Places Scott Forsythe Wants to Go

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

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

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.

This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

In the late 1990s, a mechanic and fan bought this iconic sportscar back from the dead.

Twenty-year effort to raise a castle using tools and techniques from the 13th century is now abandoned in the Arkansas woods.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

An average of 33 million gallons of water pour out of the collapsed cave at the heart of this spherical spring.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.