Places rileyabigail9560 Wants to Go

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

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

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

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

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

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

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?

Sweden's oldest street has not changed for nearly a millennium.

This ancient cave is home to a museum, bar, and is filled with fluorescent minerals.

The only completed wing of Utah's first capitol is filled with artifacts and odd stories about its past.

This set of three large, volcanic hot springs is a favorite haunt for intrepid divers.

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.

An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

Eat burgers beneath gargantuan taxidermy and thousands of dollar bills in Utah's oldest continuously-operating bar.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.

The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.