Places lenayehtaylor Wants to Go

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

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

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

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

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

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

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