Places Closed247 Wants to Go

A Civil War fort in the middle of Washington, D.C. has been swallowed by a forest.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

This stone tower marks a lookout point over the historic Washington Crossing, and maybe some buried treasure.

A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.

This neo-Gothic former auto showroom is one of the few remaining reminders of Brooklyn's "Automobile Row."

Brooklyn's Barkaloo Cemetery is the resting place of a scant two bodies.

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

These historic buildings once housed the headquarters of one of the most infamous gangs of New York.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

Visit the site of a subway powered by nothing more than air--and lots of it.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

This Italian foot path winds through the mountains via 52 individual tunnels.

142 ceramic steps become a mosaic once a year.

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

Mosaics, storks, and brothels—this ancient city has it all.