Places MattJCasey Wants to Go

A garment factory hides a small Dominican eatery in the hallway to its freight elevator.

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

Cantonese comfort food is on the menu at this Asiatown mainstay.

At Houston’s longest-running restaurant, find a classic oyster stew beloved by a former U.S. President.

An eccentric priest's tribute to George Washington, this chapel tells the story of the American Revolution.

This stretch of the ancient Roman road is preserved in a valley that witnessed many battles and legendary highwaymen.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

Before Metro, Washington had a robust streetcar network—and you see the remains of this infrastructure if you know where to look.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

A derelict bit of transportation infrastructure hidden in the woods.

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

This imposing Masonic temple a mile from the White House was the first public library in Washington, D.C.

This lonely waterfront memorial to the men of the Titanic was erected by the "Women of America."

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.