Places AaronNetsky Wants to Go

Hundreds of numbered stakes hidden in the woods mark the graves of the lost souls of a nearby asylum.

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

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

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

America's first public mental health facility.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

The blood-soaked ruins of the castle where the murderous Blood Countess was walled in alive.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

This nostalgic blast from the grooming past is also a working barbershop.

This whimsical public art installation is a unique homage to Liverpool's industrial heritage.

A Japanese temple, old German townhouses, and public chess tables offer a peaceful escape from the bustle of the North Side.

This colorful but controversial ceiling has been likened to a 21st-century Sistine Chapel.

Little did a museum know, they possessed the last-known lunch wagon in existence.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

Along the Palisades skyline are the ruins of a large mansion built in 1911 and demolished in the 1930s.

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

This 19th-century Hamptons windmill was once home to modernist painter Agnes Pelton.

Even for Egyptian royalty, the afterlife was bring-your-own-beef.

This Central New York ghost town was once a prosperous railroad community.

The Binghamton area is home to six of the last remaining hand-carved vintage carousels.

The final resting place of Harriet Tubman and other famous historical figures.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.