Places James Ricci Wants to Go

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

The Vatican of the movie industry turned into an actual church.

The home of aviation trailblazers, in a remote corner of the big city.

A former seaside jewel built for the everyman is now simply a neglected art deco fortress.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

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

Become a prohibition rebel.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

New York's oldest magic store.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

Pillars made of 700 pieces of luggage climb to the ceiling of Sacramento Airport's baggage claim.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

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

One of the largest fleets of armored vehicles in the world, sitting out in the California desert.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

Is this the most Portland place ever?

Now nearly abandoned, Kaskaskia was once the capital of Illinois and one of the most important towns on the upper Mississippi.

An abandoned boat that's been stranded mysteriously for decades.

This 19th century hydroelectric powerhouse was the first of its kind.

Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.