Places loganczar Wants to Go

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

This statue commemorates the importance of hat manufacturing to Danbury, once known as the "Hat City of the World."

This historic railway museum may have lost its passengers but not its love for trains.

It looks like a whale, it's part of Yale, and it's best-known by a nickname you can probably work out for yourself.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.

One of the few brewers in the U.S. experimenting with hop-free beers.

Malcolm X's house during his most formative years faces an uncertain future.

A real plaque marks the spot where a Faulknerian character committed fictional suicide.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

There are two dozen tanks just sitting in an open field in Lower Saxony.

This vacant church in the Financial District was once the heart of New York's first Syrian immigrant community.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.

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

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.