Places texbenedict Wants to Go

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

This giant disembodied horse head seems to balance impossibly on its nose.

Once the world's largest reinforced concrete structure, this abandoned bridge now beckons urban explorers.

This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.

Pennsylvania’s creepiest roadside attraction is a haunting example of roadside kitsch.

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

For 20 years, local pumpkins have met their fate on the iron fence surrounding this Cobble Hill home.

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

New York's oldest magic store.

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

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

Small monoliths of several varieties of stone sit alongside a wooded path in the Bronx.

This Orthodox Church's exterior is rather unorthodox.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

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

The smallest island in Manhattan is a manmade landfill dominated by a Buddhist peace arch.

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

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

This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

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

This forlorn park is the result of a failed investment turned tax dodge.