Places longitudelexitude Wants to Go

This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground

Once the world's largest reinforced concrete structure, this abandoned bridge now beckons urban explorers.

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.

This Orthodox Church's exterior is rather unorthodox.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

This geodesic gallery holds a collection of painted spheres that make traditional canvases look lazy by comparison.

Forgotten under the construction of a new urban roadway is a small, abandoned part of town.

Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

One artist's yard is full of shining, whirling kinetic sculptures that look like pure steel psychedelia.

Quirky movable sculptures have been racing through the town since 1983.

The cardinal directions, set in stone.

North America's oldest quarantine facility was built in response to Philadelphia's 1793 yellow fever outbreak.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

On rare days, this abandoned castle's gatekeepers open its doors, revealing the eye-popping splendor hidden inside.

This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.