Places Ms18 Wants to Go

Devotional offerings and pleas for intercession are left at this Depression-era shrine inside a nature preserve.

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

What happens here stays here – unless it affects the whole world.

One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.

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

A former connection to City Island, it has been abandoned since the 1930s.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

A mysterious air force base built to resemble a Long Island fishing village.

The oldest working cattle ranch in the U.S.

A unique seaside cave where Aleister Crowley faked his own death.

Tucked away inside this concrete building is a church and its grand display of brutalist architecture.

One Portuguese poet described this cape, the westernmost point in mainland Europe, as "where the land ends and the sea begins."

In Portugal, a secluded stretch of untouched natural beauty hides at the bottom of a steep hill.

The verdant mossy ruins of a Franciscan monastery lie in the remote Sintra hills awaiting exploration.

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

An ancient and majestic fortress that played an integral role in Portugal's road to independence.

At night, bats patrol this magnificent 18th-century space in search of book-eating pests.

The most disputed archipelago in the world.

This landlocked lake is the world's largest on an island.

This igloo-shaped landmark in Iqaluit serves as the seat of the Diocese of the Arctic.