Places jackrockocasey Wants to Go

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

New York's oldest magic store.

Residents of this Brooklyn neighborhood may be unaware their houses sit atop a buried trolley graveyard.

One of the deadliest American air disasters is nearly forgotten in Brooklyn.

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

Final resting place of a New Haven urban legend.

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories

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

Haven for steampunks.

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

The last slot car racing arcade in Brooklyn is keeping the dream of speedy little autos alive.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

This granite monument at the site of an ill-conceived tourist attraction is built from the same stone as the Mormon Temple.

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

The loneliest island in New York.

This ruined fort hidden at the top of Central Park can't seem to keep from losing its historical plaques.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.