Places meltingknight Wants to Go

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.

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

A mysterious echo seems to defy the laws of acoustics.

The first evidence of some of the Earth's earliest life was found in this fossilized undersea grotto.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

An eccentric playboy's astounding natural history collection.

This locally-famous crevasse in New York State is icy all year round.

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.

A winding, cliffside stretch of road overlooking the Delaware River.

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

An obsolete form of timekeeping still marks the hour in this adapted 19th century lighthouse.

The most accurate timepiece in the world.

Red frames showcase remnants of one of New York's original subway stations.

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

An abandoned 19th century quarry in the middle of the woods, remade by unnamed wanderers into a massive series of rock thrones.

A collection of unique outdoor sculptures surounded by the beauty of nature.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.

This natural rock "church" might not be a proper chapel but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.

A deteriorating 1990s Girl Scout camp in a beautiful lush park on Lake Ontario.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

The birthplace of America's favorite fruit-flavored mystery dessert.