Places ttrutt Wants to Go

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

A collection of unique outdoor sculptures surounded by the beauty of nature.

Hiroshima survivor on Riverside Drive.

A peaceful international sculpture garden in upstate New York.

See wolves, coyotes, and arctic foxes in a natural environment smack in the middle of New York State.

A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.

Town full of spiritualists, some of whom are mediums, is still in full swing after 130 years.

Discovered by cows, these upstate New York show caves are presented with a healthy dose of psychedelic folk art.

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

Not even a series of devastating fires could keep this odd castle in upstate New York from bouncing back.

An arcade packed with a rotating collection of unique independent video games.

A deteriorating 1990s Girl Scout camp in a beautiful lush park on Lake Ontario.

Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.

The absurd creation is a compulsory destination for selfies in Buffalo.

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

A historic 1890s architectural masterpiece with an iconic clock tower that, once open to the public, now faces an uncertain future.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.