Places Temporary Hero Wants to Go

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

Become a prohibition rebel.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

"Try not to knock anything over!"

A castle on a hill once named "the most beautiful high school in Massachusetts."

The owner of one of the oldest homes in Amherst had a unique request before the home could be turned into a museum.