Places Nicola B Wants to Go

A secret fresh water spring for animals and humans alike hidden along the most famous road in the United States.

A working cattle ranch with remarkably well-preserved prehistoric petroglyphs and ancient ruins.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

Over 2,000 ancient temples dot the Myanmar landscape at the site of this famed archaeological site.

A steam trawler with a whiskey-soaked history driven ashore in 1960 resides rusty but still standing on the shoreline.

The last slot car racing arcade in Brooklyn is keeping the dream of speedy little autos alive.

This Queens hospital has stood abandoned for almost 20 years after its patients were secretly relocated in the dead of night.

The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.

The former estate of the Guggenheims, part of the opulent Gold Coast that inspired the Great Gatsby.

This Orthodox Church's exterior is rather unorthodox.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

The loneliest island in New York.

An isolated beacon with a history of grisly murder and a view of some of literature's greatest inspirations.

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.

The remains of what was once the world's steepest passenger funicular.

This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

The ceiling of this vintage movie palace is covered in fantastic Art Deco murals.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

The divine septet of Japanese fortune gods are rendered in 1,000-year-old wood at this peaceful site.

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.