Places Kelsey Kennedy Wants to Go

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

This once-grand marvel of engineering is now 41 miles of scenic hiking trail.

The first evidence of some of the Earth's earliest life was found in this fossilized undersea grotto.

An eccentric playboy's astounding natural history collection.

This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.

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

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.

A deteriorating 1990s Girl Scout camp in a beautiful lush park on Lake Ontario.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.

A staggering collection of photographs depicting medical, social, and historical change.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.