Places phildzielski Wants to Go

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

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

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

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

Where pardoned turkeys once spent their all-too-brief final days.

The home of pigs, snakes, chameleons, and the alleged largest bunny in the United States.

The U.S. Army's giant warehouse of war art includes Hitler’s watercolors and Norman Rockwell oil paintings.

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

This sprawling farm was once a Cold War-era hideaway for the nation's top diplomats.

Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

Located at the former Lorton Prison the Lucy Burns Museum tells the story of the 91 year history of the prison including the dark chapter of its involvement in the women's suffrage movement.

The graveyard holding the remains of George Washington's slaves was forgotten for nearly 200 years.

Inside the unassuming cemetery chapel is a magnificent stained glass window and mosaics.

A gregarious Ohio resident has been building his whimsical temple to peace for decades.

An old church full of restored Catholic statues is a makeup artist's labor of love.

Hundreds of 19th-century characters descend upon an Ohio town every autumn.

You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.

A slab of sandstone covered with mysterious 1,000-year-old rock carvings from a vanished North American culture.

Its vintage camera collection gives a snapshot of the past as viewed through a photographic lens.

A quiet, gothic haven nestled between Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill and Point Breeze neighborhoods.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

This derelict building used to house infirm Freemasons, their widows, and orphans.

One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.