Places mscollinstm Wants to Go

This decrepit abandoned building is made all the more eerie by its dark history.

A seemingly out-of-place comic book surprise sits on the 21st floor of the tallest university library in the world. 

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

Home to the Titanic Historical Society's collection.

The final resting place of a wealthy landowner who helped create the largest public park in Western Massachusetts.

This 15-foot-tall sculpture stands vigil at the back entrance to the largest public park in western Massachusetts.

Panoramic views of the city of New Haven and the Long Island Sound, with a side of history.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

This statue honors a pillar of the early New Haven Black community.

A hidden piece of Altoona's railroad history in a long-forgotten abandoned town.

Buildings that dynamite couldn't bring down were abandoned because of bathroom issues.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.

One man's real life disfigurement inspired a lasting local legend surrounding an eerie tunnel.

The quarry was abandoned over 100 years ago, after a massive ammunition explosion ended in tragedy.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

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

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

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

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

This small road tunnel is the only place where you can cross beneath the Erie Canal.