Places ksk Wants to Go

All that remains of a magnate's dream home is a historic gate and an abandoned public pool.

A preserved factory in the "Home of the Carrousel" is now a museum dedicated to the classic wooden ride.

The floor-to-ceiling collection in an old factory is a unique alternative to stuffy galleries.

The private island of Yale's elite Skull & Bones society is kind of a dump.

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

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

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.

This once luxurious Catskills resort is now a haunting ruin.

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

This abandoned ironworks was once the most important military supplier in America.

An abandoned dollhouse factory.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

A forgotten relic from New York's bygone trolley system hides in plain sight under a bridge.

A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.

Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.