Places hlabo15 Wants to Go

This lavish room in a New York City mansion is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

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

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

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

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

Volunteer-run library dedicated to exploring five decades of activism history.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

Peek through the gates at this oasis from the city, full of Old English charm.

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

This unassuming retro burger joint was billed as “diner of the future” at the 1939 World's Fair.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

A 19th century hat factory still stands as a crumbling ruin in upstate New York.

This spooky statue sits outside a famous Prague theater.

A herd of plastic cows hangs out under this transmission tower in rural Georgia.

This misspelled graffiti reappears every time it is removed.

Bronzes and busts that once stood in the city's main squares are now relegated to a small hidden courtyard.

Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.

What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?