Places matthewzaccara Wants to Go

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick."

Beautiful natural falls where Satan once ruined a pot of beans.

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

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

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

This small New York museum celebrates the mountainous artwork of a Russian mystic.

The last slot car racing arcade in Brooklyn is keeping the dream of speedy little autos alive.

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

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

The last remnants of what was once one of the world's grandest hotels can now be found in a Manhattan subway station.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

There’s a secret bunker inside the Brooklyn Bridge, but the city won’t say where.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

Historic Greenpoint theater turned roller disco, then chain pharmacy, and now Sweetgreen.

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.

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

A remnant from the golden age of aviation still in use today, Pan Am's Clipper service took off from this Art Deco gem.