Places meltingknight Wants to Go

The original Uncle Sam was actually a New York meatpacker who is buried under this historic grave.

This abandoned ironworks was once the most important military supplier in America.

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

This castle-like building in Manhattan helped destigmatize cancer in the 19th century.

Every animal in the torah taxidermied and crammed into a Brooklyn townhouse.

A former poultry store that looks like a giant duck and is one of the "seven wonders" of Long Island.

Take in a rare, face-to-face glimpse of Lady Liberty at this tucked away Red Hook park.

HBO series' stage tucked away in a Greenpoint lot is the largest theatrical set of its kind in the United States.

The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.

A fictional town that was briefly brought to life before fading once again out of existence.

An abandoned subway tunnel that could have reinvigorated Staten Island still lies somewhere beneath this Brooklyn park.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

Glacial erratic or man-made dolmen? It probably wasn't druids.

The gravestone of the suffragist leader attracted extra visitors during the 2016 election.

Waterway populated with abandoned projects, including a submarine.

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.

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

Reforestation in action is the main attraction in this abandoned quarry.

Every weekend, people gather here for a brief chance to see their loved ones on the other side of the United States–Mexico border.

This forlorn park is the result of a failed investment turned tax dodge.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.

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

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.