Places unitof Wants to Go

Out of a labyrinth of abandoned tunnels and stops, this Queens subway station is arguably the most mysterious—if it exists at all.

This Queens beer hall preserves a German culture and language that is all but lost.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

Visit the site of a subway powered by nothing more than air--and lots of it.

A Google software engineer's Easter egg led to what may be the world's most unusual saved screenshot.

The only depiction of Abraham Lincoln holding a weapon, and the names of all 9,000 Cuyahoga veterans of the Civil War.

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

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

This NASA test station is home to some of the world’s largest and most powerful space environment simulation facilities.

A former Canadian automobile ferry mysteriously appeared in the Black River 20 years ago, and now it quietly rusts away.

Since 1956, this quintessentially New England seafood shack has been boiling its lobsters in seawater over wood fires.

Amazingly, this old machine within the Resorts Casino still functions.

A collection of 16,000 antlers crammed beautifully into a small shed.

This unassuming home was once “grand central station” for the Underground Railroad.

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.

The world’s largest underwater sculpture is found just off the coast of Nassau.

An underwater road considered a possible Atlantis location.

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

Swirling layers of white and red rock earned these mountains their festive nickname.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.