Places Temporary Hero Wants to Go

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

Discovered by cows, these upstate New York show caves are presented with a healthy dose of psychedelic folk art.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

This abandoned caretaker's apartment is one of 13 left in the New York Public Library system.

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

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

Home on the Hillside, and home of the first breakfast cereal.

A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

For over 80 years, Mayan ruins stood proudly in a most unlikely location.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.

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

The library of every book lover's dreams.

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

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

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

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