Places luKa84 Wants to Go

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

This ruined fort hidden at the top of Central Park can't seem to keep from losing its historical plaques.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

The abandoned coal loading dock is a canvas for unsanctioned art.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

A World War II-era submarine is stuck in the mud in New Jersey.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

The home of aviation trailblazers, in a remote corner of the big city.

A riverfront park that both remediated and preserved its industrial past.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

A retired subway car stands alone in a field in the middle of Queens.

Walking around West Harlem reveals a scavenger hunt of beautiful bird murals.

Where the four original members of the Ramones hung out and revolutionized punk rock.

Out of a labyrinth of abandoned tunnels and stops, this Queens subway station is arguably the most mysterious—if it exists at all.

The phone booths of New York City have all but disappeared, but their remains were once found in this "graveyard," sadly now removed as well.

A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.

For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.