Places renelanausse Wants to Go

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

A hospital that became a college, was abandoned again, and finally became a gated community.

A mysterious air force base built to resemble a Long Island fishing village.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

A mysterious, abandoned building rotting on the Brooklyn waterfront.

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

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

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

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

This small, hidden cove is home to abandoned boats.

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

This abandoned ironworks was once the most important military supplier in America.

The loneliest island in New York.

The largest known open fault in the United States is basically a giant natural refrigerator.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

A memorial marks the library lobby where Langston Hughes' ashes are buried.

Haunted Victorian house that inspired a legendary "Ghostbusters" court ruling.