Places mbradley47 Wants to Go

This abandoned artificial island off the coast of New York City is now home to dozens of harbor seals.

A 19th century hat factory still stands as a crumbling ruin in upstate New York.

The ballpark in "Pigtown" where the Brooklyn Dodgers made their name was replaced with a huge apartment complex.

The "last holdout of the Confederacy” actually sat at the edge of the Canadian border.

The most radioactive spot in New York City can also fix your muffler.

Once a ferry dock, radio transmitter, and now a new Greenpoint park.

Curtiss is a forgotten figure in the early history of flight.

Where one of Greenpoint's "five black arts" was practiced.

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

One sculptor's lifelong war game is the largest and longest running miniature campaign in history.

This landmark building is now a vibrant performing arts space with musical acts from around the world.

Compensation for the destruction of a historic shipyard.

The one-time office of the architectural firm that ushered in the Gilded Age is now a Club Monaco.

A towering cemetery monument honors a man who threatened to expose the Freemasons and paid with his life.

A hidden bar inside an ad agency has a deliberately misleading name, so employees can stay late under pretext of paperwork.

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

Hidden inside one of the world's most well-visited zoos is a secret plaque promising eternal life.

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.

This high-perched pachyderm marks the memory of not one, but two elephants gunned down in small New England towns.

This mysterious marker puzzles pedestrians and infuriates geographers.

This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.

This recently uncovered ad for Lindsay's run at Mayor in 1965 had been hiding for decades underneath a billboard.

Fabrication workshop where the encasement for One World Trade Center's beacon was constructed.

As telephones become more essential and less stylish one historic Brooklyn building remembers the days when they were a grand celebration of communication.