Places drsupherpen Wants to Go

Once a flowing stream and where the USS Monitor, the world's first ironclad, was built and launched.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

Where the Monitor was launched and ushered in the age of the "ironclads."

If you were standing here on October 5th, 1950, you'd be dead.

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

Final resting place of Typhoid Mary.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

One of the deadliest American air disasters is nearly forgotten in Brooklyn.

Now the site of a high school, this was almost the location of the largest cathedral in the US.

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

One Brooklyn man's collection of life-size fiberglass statues has taken over his entire yard.

The only surviving sidewalk clock in Brooklyn.

A hidden architectural treasure in New York's Brooklyn.

The former estate of the Guggenheims, part of the opulent Gold Coast that inspired the Great Gatsby.

Waterway populated with abandoned projects, including a submarine.

This metal eagle one of the final remnants of a newspaper that wanted to keep Brooklyn to Brooklyn.

The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

Oldest surviving example of a Dutch saltbox frame house in America.

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.