Places posturethecat Wants to Go

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

The library of every book lover's dreams.

Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

This small, hidden cove is home to abandoned boats.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

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

The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."

A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

This 329-acre nature park is Lake Washington's largest remaining wetland ecosystem.

An enormous boulder deposited by the Scabland floods lies in the Quincy Basin among a host of smaller boulders.

A former Catholic seminary, now a Washington State Park, preserves undeveloped lands on Lake Washington and also hosts a luxury hotel.

A startling waterfall, not far from a roadside viewpoint.

Every drop of water in this 27-mile long reservoir was pumped up from the Columbia River using power from Grand Coulee Dam.

Founded in 1961, this comic shop is said to be the oldest in the world.

Tucked away in Seward Park is Seattle’s only old-growth forest.

See the imprints of ancient trees, burned and preserved by lava.