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artandarchaeology

Archaeologist, natural science illustrator, and former art history professor specializing in Classic Veracruz iconography and epigraphy---following the road to ruins on five continents and multiple countries. Closer to home I enjoy hiking, biking, kayaking, and exploring caves, tunnels, industrial ruins, and insectivorous bogs.

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Brooklyn, New York

New York Transit Museum

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

Rebekah Otto

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Queens, New York

The Golden Shopping Mall

An easy to overlook storefront hides some of the most authentic and regionally diverse Chinese food in New York.

Susan Xu

Added by Susan Xu

Queens, New York

5 Pointz

A graffiti Mecca welcoming artists from around the world.

aboychuk

Added by aboychuk

Queens, New York

Primo Autobody Repair

The most radioactive spot in New York City can also fix your muffler.

EricGrundhauser

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Queens, New York

Socrates Sculpture Park

This outdoor gallery of sculptures along the East River was once a landfill.

Andres Schiffino

Added by Andres Schiffino

Queens, New York

Pulaski Bridge

A drawbridge named for a potentially intersex Polish national who fought alongside George Washington during the American Revolution, and an example of "Pulaski Red".

kastoory

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Queens, New York

Phil-Am Foods

Snack on a partially gestated duck egg.

Oliver Hong

Added by Oliver Hong

Queens, New York

Jacob Riis Park Bathhouse

A former seaside jewel built for the everyman is now simply a neglected art deco fortress.

Luke J Spencer

Added by Luke J Spencer

Queens, New York

Valencia Movie House

The Vatican of the movie industry turned into an actual church.

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Queens, New York

The Noguchi Museum

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

aboychuk

Added by aboychuk

Queens, New York

Calvary Cemetery

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

Allison

Added by Allison

Queens, New York

TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

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Queens, New York

Panorama of the City of New York

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

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Queens, New York

The Ganesh Temple of Queens

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

Luke J Spencer

Added by Luke J Spencer

Queens, New York

Flushing Meadows-Corona Park

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

Rebekah Otto

Added by Rebekah Otto

Queens, New York

Fort Totten

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

Luke J Spencer

Added by Luke J Spencer

Sleepy Hollow, New York

The Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

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Nyack, New York

Clausland Mountain Tunnels

These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.

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Rapa Nui, Chile

Orongo

This was once the center of the Birdman cult, and is now a World Heritage Site.

Ta' Hagrat Temples

At more than 5,000 years old, these structures are among the oldest free-standing stone buildings in the world.

MegalithHunter

Added by MegalithHunter

Maltese Catacomb Complexes

Burial grounds for more than 1,000 bodies deep under the modern town of Rabat.

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Mnajdra

This Stone Age solar temple aligns with the sun on each equinox and solstice.

Trevor

Added by Trevor

Glastonbury, Connecticut

Nike Missile Site HA-26

Inside a state forest, the forgotten remains of a Cold War defensive installation.

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Museo de América

This fascinating and poignant museum chronicles every imaginable aspect of Spanish colonialism in the Americas.

Monsieur Mictlan

Added by Monsieur Mictlan