Places Nerdabella Wants to Go

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

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

Rusty pieces of metal jutting out of a breakwater are all that's visible of the 12,500-ton ocean liner that capsized just off the beach.

Once the site of speeding horses, now home to picnickers and public concerts.

A playing field for a popular French past time can be found tucked away in a quiet corner of Golden Gate Park.

Approximately 250,000 people left homeless by the great earthquake and fires found shelter in Golden Gate Park.

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

Created in 1972, the famous sculptor's intricately detailed monument to San Francisco is overflowing with city landmarks.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

Five varieties of trees with custom-designed grates around the trunk are planted along the route of the Seattle Transit Tunnel.

A 1,000 pound brass bell commemorates a time when this small maritime neighborhood was actually its own separate city.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.

An eclectic restaurant serving from and to the nearby Chittenden Locks.

This graveyard contains markers and monuments dedicated to some of the darkest chapters in Washington's history.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.