Places LeslieB Wants to Go

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

This 45-story tall abandoned skyscraper is the third tallest building in New Orleans and Lousiana.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

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 giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and converted into a cocktail bar. Now it’s home to the local visitor bureau.

These colossal desert barcodes have been fine-tuning spy satellites for decades.

A distillery built on (and above!) mobster Dutch Schultz's Prohibition-era underground moonshine business.

A former connection to City Island, it has been abandoned since the 1930s.

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

The sculpture is made of more than 100,000 knives collected to raise awareness about violence.

This forlorn park is the result of a failed investment turned tax dodge.

A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

It was an experiment to prove that glacial boulders and rocks can be used in constructions and dwelling.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

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

The highest peak in the state of Vermont has some interesting features.

A gardener's enduring labor of love is spread throughout a small Vermont town.

The monument dedicated to Phineas Gage in the town where his accident happened.

The world’s largest underground marble quarry is hiding in Vermont.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.