West Nyack, New York
Mount Moor Cemetery
A historic Black graveyard hidden in the parking lot of one of America's largest malls.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Nyack, New York
The Ghost of Nyack
Haunted Victorian house that inspired a legendary "Ghostbusters" court ruling.
Bethel, New York
Woodstock Site
The dairy farm in upstate New York where nearly half a million people gathered for three days of peace and music in 1969.
Amityville, New York
Amityville Horror House
The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.
Neversink, New York
Neversink
The lost town of Neversink, sunk by New York City.
Parksville, New York
Parksville
This Central New York ghost town was once a prosperous railroad community.
Haverstraw, New York
The House by the Railroad
This house was the subject of an Edward Hopper painting, which in turn helped inspire the design of the Bates house in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho.'
Bayport, New York
The Long Island Sphinx
A century ago, aspiring socialites climbed on this cement beast with the hopes of marrying a millionaire.
Exeter, Rhode Island
Grave of Mercy Brown
The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."
New York, New York
The Weathermen Townhouse Explosion
A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.
New York, New York
Death Avenue Plaque
Manhattan's deadly West Side railroad, which killed hundreds of New Yorkers, is remembered by this simple plaque.
New York, New York
Shrine of Saint Frances Cabrini
The mummified relics of an American missionary.
New York, New York
Marie's Crisis
Those belting out show tunes in this West Village piano bar might not realize it marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.
New York, New York
Berlin Wall Section
A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.
New York, New York
Trinity Churchyard
This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.
New York, New York
Wall Street Bombing Scars
Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.
New York, New York
Rudolph de Harak Digital Clock
The façade of this building looks like a bingo board, but it's really a giant clock by a famed graphic designer.
New York, New York
Fraunces Tavern
This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.
New York, New York
Preserved Remnants of 17th Century New York
Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.
New York, New York
The 'Ghostbusters' Firehouse
Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.
New York, New York
Long Lines Building
An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.
Stony Point, New York
Old Letchworth Village Cemetery
Hundreds of numbered stakes hidden in the woods mark the graves of the lost souls of a nearby asylum.
Thiells, New York
Letchworth Village
Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.
Hartsdale, New York
Hartsdale Pet Cemetery
The first pet cemetery in the United States.
