Places leiladelvalle Wants to Go

The last slot car racing arcade in Brooklyn is keeping the dream of speedy little autos alive.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

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

According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

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

Built as a gift to the hottest tastemaker of the time, these hidden quarters remain an Art Deco showpiece.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.

A museum and tribute to a brave profession.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.