Places Edited by tessofthedurbeyfields

Run by the same people as a subterranean art space, this pub does double-duty as a Cave of Wonders.

Now owned by the National Park Service, this location was once home to illegal boxing matches.

A waterway covered over after the Industrial Revolution has been unearthed and cleaned up, for the enjoyment of fish and humans alike.

The mysterious image is believed to show Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, in a beautiful blue dress.

The last remnants of what was once one of the world's grandest hotels can now be found in a Manhattan subway station.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

The home, museum, and death site of Kodak's influential founder.

Legendary private island in the Bronx...devoid of rats.

Detroit’s downtown castle is one of the oldest structures in the city.

Built as a home for the Union Porcelain magnate in 1867, now the Greenpoint Reformed Church and home to a ceramic mystery.

Once a flowing stream and where the USS Monitor, the world's first ironclad, was built and launched.

Historic Greenpoint theater turned roller disco, then chain pharmacy, and now Sweetgreen.