Queens, New York
Home for Retired Playground Animals
A menagerie of concrete animals brought together from across New York City's parks.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Queens, New York
A menagerie of concrete animals brought together from across New York City's parks.
Kokomo, Indiana
More than 100 years after his death, the world's largest steer is still attracting crowds.
Washington, D.C.
Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.
Bluff, Utah
A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.
North Bend, Washington
A short hike into the mountainside forest reveals a decaying 1890s town.
Waterbury, Vermont
The remains of a deserted 1800s farming community can be found in Little River State Park.
Hermosa, South Dakota
Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.
Hopkinton, Rhode Island
This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.
Lares, Puerto Rico
The location of Puerto Rico's first water bottling plant, thanks to a collaboration between Mother Nature and technology.
La Grande, Oregon
A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.
Edmond, Oklahoma
Tucked away on an empty wooded lot in suburban Oklahoma City lie the remnants of an abandoned circus camp.
Cincinnati, Ohio
An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.
San Jon, New Mexico
The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.
Chesterfield, New Hampshire
Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.
Beatty, Nevada
Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.
Pleasant Dale, Nebraska
The abandoned remnants of a little sanctuary for world peace that fell into disrepair.
Iuka, Mississippi
Instead of becoming a power plant, this abandoned complex became a massive letdown.
Rosemount, Minnesota
The remains of a World War II munitions factory still haunt the fields of this Twin Cities suburb.
Detroit, Michigan
A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.
Boston, Massachusetts
American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.
Boston, Massachusetts
The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.
Boston, Massachusetts
Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.
Boston, Massachusetts
The final resting place of the first documented Chinese person in the United States lies in a Boston cemetery.
Boston, Massachusetts
The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.