Places rodneyconley Wants to Go

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

Ruins of a once-prized railroad station in New York.

An old dining hall now serves up ghost stories for lusty locals.

Eclectic architecture in the woods of New York.

Created by four famous men, the beautifully designed Buffalo State Asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center, but still boasts a ghost story or two.

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

A forsaken wonder in the middle of the East Side neighborhood.

The abandoned ruins of America's first private zoo are open for exploration in the Catskills.

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

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

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."

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.