Places phildzielski Wants to Go

A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.

These unassuming lighthouses have seen the first reading of the Pledge of Allegiance, the first wireless transmission, and more than one mystery.

The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

Once on display alongside a giant Gumby, it’s as tall as a nine-story building when fully extended.

Maryland's first (and last standing) toll house on America's first federal road established the state as the "Gateway to the West."

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.

These mystical miniature houses bring a touch of magic to the New Jersey woods.

The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.

A remarkable time capsule of American manufacturing deep in Maryland coal country.

The only National Monument ever to go missing for nearly 50 years then resurface in a dump.

A room hidden behind a swinging shelf in the children's section.

The largest guitar store in the world has been visited by some of music's all-time greats passing through upstate New York.

A former barn converted into a massive train diorama.

An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.

An abandoned subway tunnel that could have reinvigorated Staten Island still lies somewhere beneath this Brooklyn park.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

The original Uncle Sam was actually a New York meatpacker who is buried under this historic grave.

A cargo of beautiful music.

The mass grave of a heroic Revolutionary War regiment sits below an empty lot near the Gowanus Canal.

This small road tunnel is the only place where you can cross beneath the Erie Canal.

A gigantic 10-foot tall stone man.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.