Places lostslav Wants to Go

The absurd creation is a compulsory destination for selfies in Buffalo.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

The library of every book lover's dreams.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.