Places mavery367 Wants to Go

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

This tiny church near Sleepy Hollow contains Henri Matisse's last work, a rose window, and nine windows by Marc Chagall.

At this site, two historic stone bridges spanning the Sing Sing Kill—one right on top of the other.

This sound-art installation features songs composed using only the Mid-Hudson Bridge as an instrument.

This fancifully decorated Victorian home in New York’s Hudson Valley is the only known fully domed octagonal residence in the United States.

This once-grand marvel of engineering is now 41 miles of scenic hiking trail.

An abandoned horticulture institute gloomily presides over rows of derelict and vine-wrought greenhouses.

Self-sufficient greenhouse floating on the Hudson River.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

The remains of what was once the world's steepest passenger funicular.

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

In Cold Spring, New York, a shrine containing Godzilla and an assortment of plastic dinosaurs stands dedicated to a teenager who died in a car accident in 1996.

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

Astonishing collection of helmets, scientific instruments, and medical models.

Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.

Home of Philip Johnson, one of the 20th century's most influential architects.

For over 80 years, Mayan ruins stood proudly in a most unlikely location.

An ode to female reproductive organs in an unexpected location

A statue in the Texas town that proudly calls itself the killer bee capital of the world.