Places lakupper13 Wants to Go

An abandoned dollhouse factory.

An enormous cat made of recycled wood scraps.

These expertly crafted, scientifically accurate glass sea creatures were once an international phenomenon.

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

This tiny store is your one-stop shop for all sorts of rare and wonderful buttons.

The remains of a failed subway in upstate New York is now an underground graffiti bunker.

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

Reverend Jen's unique museum/living room showcases her troll collection.

Walk over a 150 year old manhole.

A riverfront park that both remediated and preserved its industrial past.

Where one of the worst train disasters in the country took place, leading to upgrades in rail safety.

Hike deep into the woods to explore this Gilded Age masterpiece.

Home to first responders to Greenpoint's devastating oil fires.

Nondescript building owned by ExxonMobil working on siphoning Greenpoint Oil Spill out of the ground.

This giant rock arrived at this quiet park thousands of years ago on the back of a massive glacier.

This exhibit allows visitors to wander through the interior of a replica Ice Age glacial cave.

The first commercial nuclear power plant constructed on Long Island.

The factory that helped produce a dominant form of lighting before Thomas Edison.

2 square block factory in Greenpoint erected in 1936.

Nine nice parcels of land along a flight path offer a quiet respite... until a plane soars overhead.

This relic of 19th-century infrastructure is one of the few remaining coal gas storage tanks in the U.S.

The unassuming structure was part of a Major League Baseball stadium.

A 120-year oil leak slowly unleashes more gallons of oil than the Exxon/Mobil disaster.

Nearly four centuries after its founding, remnants of one of the oldest planned communities in North America are still visible in southern Brooklyn.