Places TopherRocks Wants to Go

New York's oldest magic store.

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

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

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

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

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

An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

This historic folk art garden contains a nightmare tower that claims to be the world's largest concrete totem pole.

The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.

The overgrown remains of an old rail bridge rise above the valley like ancient Greek ruins.

A fiberglass jungle, deep in the wilds of the Cleveland suburbs.

An unoccupied lighthouse encased in layers of ice from the waters of Lake Erie.

This abandoned bridge to nowhere stands secluded in the woods of a Cleveland suburb.

Abandoned since the 1950s, the streetcar lane beneath the heavily trafficked bridge lays empty and unused.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

Unique collection containing a wide and curious range of contraceptive items.

Marvel at this turn-of-the-century masterpiece that has been turned into a rather stately supermarket.

Cleveland's giant "free" stamp is a nod to the Civil War, but was misinterpreted for years.

On a wall in Cleveland, Ohio find the story of a highly connected fictional community of organisms that created remarkable, lasting structures.

This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.

Medical history museum featuring a lovely doctor's office from the 1800s.