Places tjhoek Wants to Go

The "worst battleship ever built" is enjoying a grand second act, submerged 30 feet in the Gulf of Mexico.

One of the oldest continuously operating amusement parks in the U.S. is an open-air museum of Art Deco and neon lights.

A uniquely lettered street sign marks the corner where the iconic word game was invented.

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

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.

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

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

A WWI fighter plane and turn-of-the-century penny candy shop are among the unexpected features of this Financial District building.

Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

The beautiful tunnel that ran from the lobby to Penn Station is still hidden underneath 34th Street.

The world's oldest hologram gallery and the labyrinthine laser laboratory of a holography pioneer.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

Under the shadow of its towering parent tree, a rare specimen of sequoia produces ghostly white leaves.

A classic advertising icon immortalized in regal bronze.

The legendary statue-hating superintendent of Golden Gate Park is honored with... a statue.

Approximately 250,000 people left homeless by the great earthquake and fires found shelter in Golden Gate Park.

The second building of its name to occupy this location might be the finest flatiron building in San Francisco.

This tall and trim architectural oddity is one of the skinniest buildings in San Francisco.

A miniature view of the park, caught in time.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.