Places miriamrigg Wants to Go

A towering tribute to old-fashioned laundry days, this giant washboard monument turns a simple chore into a playful spectacle!

The towering ruins of a mill that never produced a single sheet of paper.

A mysterious, abandoned building rotting on the Brooklyn waterfront.

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

This ruined fort hidden at the top of Central Park can't seem to keep from losing its historical plaques.

This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

The decaying giant of Ulster’s lost linen empire.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York’s only fraction of a street.

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.

Hidden in one of New York's oldest subway stations is the final remnant of the site of the bizarre Shakespeare Riots.

The beautiful tunnel that ran from the lobby to Penn Station is still hidden underneath 34th Street.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

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

Abandoned 19th century homes once occupied by naval officers, soon to be demolished.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

North America's oldest quarantine facility was built in response to Philadelphia's 1793 yellow fever outbreak.

This former tuberculosis treatment facility now stands at the center of a public park.

Ruins of a historic medical facility sits eerily by the water.

Crumbled shell of one of the oldest buildings in Virginia.

Rusting hulk stands in testament to the Keweenaw Peninsula’s rich history of copper mining.

Faded remnants of the entrance to a Mediterranean-style resort that never fully came to life.