Places hopemch Wants to Go

Constructed in the 1920s, this former pencil factory is now an office building.

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

A remnant from the golden age of aviation still in use today, Pan Am's Clipper service took off from this Art Deco gem.

Amid the marketing blitz of modern Times Square is an elegant holdover from its showbiz glory days.

A room hidden behind a swinging shelf in the children's section.

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

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

The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.

Pluto is still considered a planet in Ithaca, New York.

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

An antique cemetery in New York, this land is home to any number of famed corpses.

A forsaken wonder in the middle of the East Side neighborhood.

An abandoned subway tunnel that could have reinvigorated Staten Island still lies somewhere beneath this Brooklyn park.

A trove of century-old litho stones from the Puck Building's printing days were discovered behind a cellar wall, and are now hanging in the store.

This throwback amusement park is home to rides and unique storybook figures from the past.

The great American road trip, but smaller.

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

There are owls with glowing eyes in Herald Square.

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

A collection of the best toys ever made inside a museum devoted to play.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

Take in a rare, face-to-face glimpse of Lady Liberty at this tucked away Red Hook park.

Offbeat arts organization that hosts exhibitions, events, and explorations.

Haunted Victorian house that inspired a legendary "Ghostbusters" court ruling.