Places Traci Wants to Go

A century-old cabin off of Highway 30 touts an unusual construction material: dinosaur bones.

An illegally built ramshackle mansion tucked in the middle of Brooklyn is now being turned into condominiums.

The phone booths of New York City have all but disappeared, but their remains were once found in this "graveyard," sadly now removed as well.

Walk over a 150 year old manhole.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

Stunningly detailed mosaics in a New York subway station bring life to the Weimaraners of artist William Wegman's work—and to thousands of commutes.

A riverfront park that both remediated and preserved its industrial past.

Devotional offerings and pleas for intercession are left at this Depression-era shrine inside a nature preserve.

A temple belonging to the largest Buddhist order in South Korea nestled in the middle of New York City.

Jimi Hendrix's legendary recording studio in Greenwich Village.

No monkeying around, this fountain was really named after the classic sci-fi film.

After surviving abandonment, this powerful Latin American mural is alive again.

These century-old townhouses contain some of the first car garages built in the United States.

Nearly four centuries after its founding, remnants of one of the oldest planned communities in North America are still visible in southern Brooklyn.

A group dedicated to promoting boating, kayaking and environmental education programs.

A small piece of the composer's New York home lives on in the center of Czech culture in Manhattan.

The ballpark in "Pigtown" where the Brooklyn Dodgers made their name was replaced with a huge apartment complex.

Staten Island's original central park is the former home of the city water supply as well as thousands of immigrant graves.

Queen Anne style apartment house built in 1886.

The one-time office of the architectural firm that ushered in the Gilded Age is now a Club Monaco.

Before online banking and smartphone apps, there was "commuter banking" in the subway in Downtown Brooklyn.

Compensation for the destruction of a historic shipyard.

Where the legendary Orson Welles got his theatrical start before "Citizen Kane."

A modern addition to the Greenpoint skyline.