Places nyjzane Wants to Go

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

A Manhattan tombstone honors a popular 19th-century heroine, now long forgotten.

A well-worn marker in a forgotten alleyway is all that remains of what had been one of Manhattan's most beautiful buildings.

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.

The world of the ancient Celtic civilization explained through a bewitching 11 acre garden.

A sacred well steeped in Pagan roots on the West Coast of Ireland.

An airy Art Deco space devoted to the weird and wonderful folk art traditions of Mexico.

Before founding the American Red Cross, Clara Barton had a tremendous humanitarian impact by locating thousands of missing soldiers.

This folk art dinosaur was almost pushed to extinction due to lack of a building permit.

Most polluted lake in the world, used as a radioactive dumping ground for years.

This castle tower in Wales leans at a steeper angle than the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

A tribute to the riders who bridged East and West.

An Orthodox church inside a small "Garden of Eden" built by a man who had a vision.

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

Fake subway tiles were installed to cover a design that resembled the Confederate flag—it's unclear if the resemblance was intentional.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

Some 10,000 works of ancient rock art cover these volcanic basalt outcrops near the Gila River.

This Rodin sculpture in Cleveland bears the lasting marks of a 1970 bombing.