Places nlee Wants to Go

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

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

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

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

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

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

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

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

A derelict bit of transportation infrastructure hidden in the woods.

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.

This German art chapel is perfect for those who like their worship hard, modern, and utterly alien.

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

Solar observatory doubles as a daring display of Expressionist architecture, much to Einstein's chagrin.

Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.

Silent memorial, using bone conduction to take people back to the Dresden Bombing of 1945.

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”