Places shadowsandrust Wants to Go

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

Walk through the history of American pop culture.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

The final resting place of two members of the infamous Doan gang, notorious outlaws and Revolutionary War Loyalists.

A scenic fort on the harbor protected Philadelphia from an attack that never came.

A mysterious air force base built to resemble a Long Island fishing village.

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

Dilapidated Mayan-themed ballroom was one of Detroit's most popular venues through the 40s.

A hidden alley in urban Baltimore is a haven for graffiti artists.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

Where infamous mobster and leader of Murder Inc. Albert Anastasia made his home.

Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.

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

The final resting place of many of New Jersey's most famous residents, including U.S. history's most in-vogue antagonist, Aaron Burr.

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

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

Final resting place of two dozen New York City harbor ships.

This collection of odd proofs of concept is like taking a walk through the imagination of a Victorian engineer.

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

A historic grist mill and active sluice on the Black River.