Places shibumy Wants to Go

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.

The home of aviation trailblazers, in a remote corner of the big city.

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

This preserved wilderness hides the remains of a colonial grain mill used to feed George Washington's troops.

This small, hidden cove is home to abandoned boats.

Waterway populated with abandoned projects, including a submarine.

The flagship building of an early national restaurant chain is a superb example of terra cotta art.

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

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

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

The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

This local landmark is home to art galleries and the area's only community darkroom.

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.

This memorial in the Adirondack wilderness honors the accidental death of a Scottish entrepreneur.

It wouldn't be long after purchasing this farm, Brown would lead his siege on Harper's Ferry.

See wolves, coyotes, and arctic foxes in a natural environment smack in the middle of New York State.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.

A Frankenstein blend of science and art allows one tree to produce 40 different types of stone fruit.

In DeWitt, New York, a blanket-wrapped gas station makes a creative statement on global dependence on oil.