Places helitua Wants to Go

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

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

A sewing machine tycoon built this miniature castle for the people and to beautify a lakeshore.

This Queens hospital has stood abandoned for almost 20 years after its patients were secretly relocated in the dead of night.

Waterway populated with abandoned projects, including a submarine.

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

This dilapidated castle-like structure overlooks the Hudson River at one of its widest points and was once home to nuns.

Three acres of mythology-inspired sculptures are visible from the highway.

These mouldering mansion ruins remember a time when the Catskills were nothing but luxury.

A millionaire's abandoned swimming pool from the gilded age of one of America's most distinguished families.

The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

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

This tiny little island has, as the name says, just enough room for its single house.

Eclectic architecture in the woods of New York.

An isolated beacon with a history of grisly murder and a view of some of literature's greatest inspirations.

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

Created by four famous men, the beautifully designed Buffalo State Asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center, but still boasts a ghost story or two.

This once-grand marvel of engineering is now 41 miles of scenic hiking trail.

Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

Captain America, Sub-Mariner, and the Human Torch were all born in this art deco Manhattan masterpiece.

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

This derelict building used to house infirm Freemasons, their widows, and orphans.