Places adamthehistorianghosthunter Wants to Go

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

The Underground Railroad passed right through this historic Brooklyn Heights church.

The oldest Dutch colonial stone house in New York City is a hidden gem on the border of Brooklyn and Queens.

The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.

A big shiny gin and whiskey distillery in Sunset Park.

Final resting place for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire’s unidentified victims.

Revolutionary War casualties fill the only 17th century structure remaining in Manhattan.

A mysterious, abandoned building rotting on the Brooklyn waterfront.

Brooklyn's Barkaloo Cemetery is the resting place of a scant two bodies.

This recipe is set in stone.

This seemingly unremarkable boulder is said to bear the hoofprint of the devil himself.

This lovely little pond is named after the hundreds of soldiers' corpses that were rolled into the waters during the French-Indian War.

Where the four original members of the Ramones hung out and revolutionized punk rock.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

Failed state-supported institution meant to rehabilitate students with intellectual disabilities.

Hidden inside one of the world's most well-visited zoos is a secret plaque promising eternal life.

The origins of midtown Manhattan's anachronistic wooden farmhouse remain a mystery.

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

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

A room hidden behind a swinging shelf in the children's section.

The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.

The dairy farm in upstate New York where nearly half a million people gathered for three days of peace and music in 1969.

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

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.