Places Runic Wants to Go

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.

The saddest little diner in New York.

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

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

Volunteer-run library dedicated to exploring five decades of activism history.

The most unloved grain elevator in Brooklyn was a “Magnificent Mistake.”

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.

A millionaire's abandoned swimming pool from the gilded age of one of America's most distinguished families.

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

These mouldering mansion ruins remember a time when the Catskills were nothing but luxury.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

This once luxurious Catskills resort is now a haunting ruin.

A notorious punk house turned co-op.

Home on the Hillside, and home of the first breakfast cereal.

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.