Places nickoex Wants to Go

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

Once the largest public hospital for the mentally ill was also surrounded by controversy.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

The grave of William Rosenberg, founder of Dunkin Donuts (now Dunkin') with shops coast to coast in the US and 42 countries worldwide.

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

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

Two ancient Buddhist temples crown this dramatic rocky pinnacle.

An aptly-named street near the birthplace of the modern LGBT rights movement.

An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.

Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.

A tiny islet just off Long Island offers a wealth of infectious curiosities.

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

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

Gang fights don't just happen on the streets, they happen under them too.

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

Designed by famed 20th-century architect Cass Gilbert, the future of this abandoned 1908 rail station is currently in limbo.

Hidden amid the tropical forest in the Caribbean Sea are the decaying ruins of the Cocaine King's luxurious island party home.

There’s a secret bunker inside the Brooklyn Bridge, but the city won’t say where.

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

Stalin's secret bunker.