Places sierrawest Wants to Go

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.

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

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

Hidden in one of New York's oldest subway stations is the final remnant of the site of the bizarre Shakespeare Riots.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

In the middle of downtown Brooklyn lies a 165 year old secret hidden right below the surface (closed to the public indefinitely).

Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.

Check out the underground party scene at the "Burning Man of Brooklyn."

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

A deteriorating 1990s Girl Scout camp in a beautiful lush park on Lake Ontario.

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

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

A whimsical, but often overlooked clock in Park Avenue.

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

A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.

Come for the sustainable organic chocolate, stay for the sustainable organic booze.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.