Places hopemch Wants to Go

More than 300,000 historical artifacts from the famous music venue, from Duke Ellington's handwritten score to The Beatles' booking slip.

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

This abandoned caretaker's apartment is one of 13 left in the New York Public Library system.

Discovered by cows, these upstate New York show caves are presented with a healthy dose of psychedelic folk art.

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

This natural rock "church" might not be a proper chapel but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.

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

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

Phil Mortillaro uses keys to bring art back to the Village.

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

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.

Join in a Seance at the Swedenborgian Church.

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

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.

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

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

Town full of spiritualists, some of whom are mediums, is still in full swing after 130 years.

The most confusing clock in New York.

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

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

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

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