Places grantavery Wants to Go

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

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

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

This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.

A winding, cliffside stretch of road overlooking the Delaware River.

A Manhattan office building is home to the world’s largest chess board.

This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

An arcade packed with a rotating collection of unique independent video games.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.

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

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

Home on the Hillside, and home of the first breakfast cereal.

Comprehensive gaming collection of over 30,000 electronic games and consoles.

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.

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

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

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.

A Frankenstein blend of science and art allows one tree to produce 40 different types of stone fruit.

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.