Places kimrad Wants to Go

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

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

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

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

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

Water flowed out of the town's unusual tree stump fountain in the 1930s, and the well still runs today.

An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

What's a diner from the 1939 World's Fair doing in a remote Utah mountain town?

The notorious Wild West outlaw was raised in this unassuming abode.

This lava formation earned its whimsical name from the log-like formation of it stones.

Dubbed the "Blade Runner dragon," this buzzing neon sign is a beloved local icon.

A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

A shady solar power system that couldn't hold up to the harsh desert conditions.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.