Places hopemch Wants to Go

A hidden architectural treasure in New York's Brooklyn.

Waterway populated with abandoned projects, including a submarine.

A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.

In the back of a nondescript sports bar is a museum-worthy mural by legendary cartoonists.

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

The abandoned ruins of America's first private zoo are open for exploration in the Catskills.

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

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

An eccentric playboy's astounding natural history collection.

A perfect replica of the beloved show's first set.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

This small New York museum celebrates the mountainous artwork of a Russian mystic.

Final resting place of two dozen New York City harbor ships.

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.

Play heads or tails with thousands of different coins.

See wolves, coyotes, and arctic foxes in a natural environment smack in the middle of New York State.

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

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

Eclectic architecture in the woods of New York.

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

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

An abandoned 19th century quarry in the middle of the woods, remade by unnamed wanderers into a massive series of rock thrones.

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.