Places 1812foland Wants to Go

At this site, two historic stone bridges spanning the Sing Sing Kill—one right on top of the other.

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

This sprawling woodland estate was the brainchild of iconic American industrial designer Russel Wright.

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

The poet's been ambling through these New York woods since 1940.

The Brigadier General was so afraid of being buried alive that he had a buzzer installed in his mausoleum, just in case he woke up.

This abandoned ironworks was once the most important military supplier in America.

In Cold Spring, New York, a shrine containing Godzilla and an assortment of plastic dinosaurs stands dedicated to a teenager who died in a car accident in 1996.

Reforestation in action is the main attraction in this abandoned quarry.

A plaque on a rock dedicated to a famous, forgotten author, and put in an impossible place.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.

Home to the abandoned Tioronda Hat Works Factory, this park is a combination of woodlands and marshlands.

A 19th century hat factory still stands as a crumbling ruin in upstate New York.

The remains of what was once the world's steepest passenger funicular.

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

This sound-art installation features songs composed using only the Mid-Hudson Bridge as an instrument.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.

An unassuming island in the middle of the Hudson that hosts campers, including Aleister Crowley.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

The life of one of FDR's possible mistresses is preserved in her palatial Hudson Valley mansion.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.