Places phildzielski Wants to Go

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

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

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

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

These expertly crafted, scientifically accurate glass sea creatures were once an international phenomenon.

The library of every book lover's dreams.

Pluto is still considered a planet in Ithaca, New York.

This art center is way beyond your average pumpkin-carving operation.

The Binghamton area is home to six of the last remaining hand-carved vintage carousels.

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

A gazebo that inspired the fifth episode of the "Twilight Zone" still stands in the creator's hometown

A memorial to the 1913 tragedy that helped protect the workers of the future.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

All that remains of one of the Civil War's more deadly POW camps is a simple flagstone.

World's largest herd of white deer populate a former U.S. Army depot.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

In the mid-19th century, an eight-sided house was the latest fad.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

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

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

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.