New York, New York
Governors Island
Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.
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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Bronx, New York
Hart Island
The loneliest island in New York.
Hartsdale, New York
Hartsdale Pet Cemetery
The first pet cemetery in the United States.
West Nyack, New York
Mount Moor Cemetery
A historic Black graveyard hidden in the parking lot of one of America's largest malls.
Nyack, New York
The Ghost of Nyack
Haunted Victorian house that inspired a legendary "Ghostbusters" court ruling.
Sleepy Hollow, New York
Headless Horseman Bridge
The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.
Tarrytown, New York
Lyndhurst Bowling Alley
One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.
Permanently Closed
Yonkers, New York
Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research
An abandoned horticulture institute gloomily presides over rows of derelict and vine-wrought greenhouses.
Bronx, New York
Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto at St. Lucy's Church
Collect holy water from a Bronx grotto.
New York, New York
Rivers Cosmogram
A memorial marks the library lobby where Langston Hughes' ashes are buried.
Bronx, New York
Woodlawn Cemetery
The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.
Alpine, New Jersey
The Devil’s Tower
Said to be haunted, this tower was constructed by a sugar importer as a gift to his wife.
Bronx, New York
Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Grave
A monument stands to the famous suffragist who penned the declaration for women's equal rights, including the right to vote.
Bronx, New York
Carrie Chapman Catt's Grave
An activist who committed her life to peace and women's suffrage.
Permanently Closed
New York, New York
Phone Booth Graveyard
The phone booths of New York City have all but disappeared, but their remains were once found in this "graveyard," sadly now removed as well.
Bronx, New York
Van Cortlandt Burial Ground
A colonial family tomb that once doubled as New York City’s secret records vault.
Bronx, New York
Van Cortlandt Park Monoliths
Small monoliths of several varieties of stone sit alongside a wooded path in the Bronx.
New York, New York
The Last Remnants of the Polo Grounds
A crumbling staircase in upper Manhattan is all that remains of one of the most important sites in sports history.
New York, New York
Church of the Intercession
A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.
Bronx, New York
Hall of Fame for Great Americans
The first "Hall of Fame" in America was designed by legendary Gilded Age architect Stanford White for what was then the NYU uptown campus.
Bronx, New York
West 230th Step Street
The longest step street in the city.
New York, New York
New York Academy of Medicine Rare Book Library
This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.
Brooklyn, New York
Commercial Street Cat Village
Feral cats keeping the rodent population at bay all across Greenpoint waterfront.
New York, New York
‘Crack Is Wack’
In 1986, Keith Haring was arrested for painting this anti-drug mural on a Harlem handball court.
