Places Will Wants to Go

A stone plaque and a winking pub name are all that remain to remember the victims of deadly 1836 avalanche.

This ruined fort hidden at the top of Central Park can't seem to keep from losing its historical plaques.

Imagine having a street run right through your home, or better yet, a historic bridge three stories high.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

There’s a secret bunker inside the Brooklyn Bridge, but the city won’t say where.

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

A simple plaque remembers an act of WWI terrorism that obliterated an island and forever scarred the Statue of Liberty.

World Trade Center memorial likened to a woman's sexual organ.

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

Visible at low tide, this rusting vessel is one of the last surviving examples of the X-Class "Midget" submarines.

St. Mary's Asylum was isolated and abandoned before being converted into a Bed and Breakfast.

Although it appears ancient and mysterious, the quirky folly was actually built 200 years ago by an eccentric estate owner.

This aircraft museum is home to one of just three Halifax bombers in the world.

Centuries later, the victims of Great Britain's greatest hysteria are finally being remembered.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

What started as a way to address damp basement walls turned into a house filled with intricate hand-carved designs.

It is against the law to obstruct the view from the top of this English burial mound.

A missing Roman legion was recreated in sculpture along a Scottish cycling route.

A historic shipbuilding town is home to a sail-through fish-and-chips shop.