Places sierrawest Wants to Go

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

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

The absurd creation is a compulsory destination for selfies in Buffalo.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.

A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.