Places rmcmacki Wants to Go

Explore more than 130,000 new and used books in the "world's largest outdoor bookstore."

Abandoned in 2009, this once popular resort destination now stands frozen in time.

Rusty pieces of metal jutting out of a breakwater are all that's visible of the 12,500-ton ocean liner that capsized just off the beach.

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

An actual 1957 Cadillac De Ville, encased in 15 cubic yards of concrete.

Purdue students would lean over this iron fence to skirt campus rules against smoking and courting.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic’s missed arrival.

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

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

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

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

New York's oldest magic store.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

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

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

Home to the world's largest quilt collection dating from the 1600s through today.

A tiny wilderness cemetery commemorates the deadliest episode of the Klondike Gold Rush.

Originally a brothel during the Klondike Gold Rush, this bar once used dolls to denote when ladies were working.