Places shadowsandrust Wants to Go

This early version of the guillotine was used to execute the man responsible for its construction.

This collection of neon icons is preserving Arizona's history, one sign at a time.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

An Arizona museum with a collection of pharmaceutical oddities, including a jar of a gangster's chewed gum.

Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.

A distillery built on (and above!) mobster Dutch Schultz's Prohibition-era underground moonshine business.

The site where Joe Gallo kept his guns, pet lion, and launched an all out mob war in 1960s Brooklyn.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

Retribution for death of infamous mob boss Franie Yale was a case of mistaken identity.

Residents of this Brooklyn neighborhood may be unaware their houses sit atop a buried trolley graveyard.

The largest Buddha statue in the Western Hemisphere is just 50 miles north of NYC.

The shared home of a utopian commune that practiced "free love" a century before the hippies.

A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.

These historic buildings once housed the headquarters of one of the most infamous gangs of New York.

A former connection to City Island, it has been abandoned since the 1930s.

A peaceful international sculpture garden in upstate New York.

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

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

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

Hear the tales of New York's most notorious criminals.