Places Luke Spencer Wants to Go

An unassuming island in the middle of the Hudson that hosts campers, including Aleister Crowley.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

A hidden alley in urban Baltimore is a haven for graffiti artists.

An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.

Currently housing a corporate bank branch this building at the southern tip of Manhattan was once the gateway to luxury vacationing.

A small literary museum remembers the life and works of the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps.

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

This former Nazi castle was built as a school to train what would have been the future of the Third Reich.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

This rare polygonal meeting house is rumored to be built in a circle so that the devil has nowhere to hide.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

The first "Hall of Fame" in America was designed by legendary Gilded Age architect Stanford White for what was then the NYU uptown campus.

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

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

Mass Grave of 48 colonists killed in a raid by Native Americans and the French in 1704.

A theater sits abandoned on Roosevelt Road, once majestic in splendor, now majestic in decay.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.