Places adamthehistorianghosthunter Wants to Go

Collect holy water from a Bronx grotto.

The great American road trip, but smaller.

A sewing machine tycoon built this miniature castle for the people and to beautify a lakeshore.

A preserved factory in the "Home of the Carrousel" is now a museum dedicated to the classic wooden ride.

Haunted Victorian house that inspired a legendary "Ghostbusters" court ruling.

This dilapidated castle-like structure overlooks the Hudson River at one of its widest points and was once home to nuns.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

A formerly abandoned mental institute, now back in business.

Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.

The front yard of an Upper East Side town house hides the last fragment of one of New York's most famous theatres.

A Wisconsin kitsch palace from the 1930s lives its second life in 21st-century Brooklyn.

This throwback amusement park is home to rides and unique storybook figures from the past.

Micro-distillery in Brooklyn produces New York’s first homemade rum since Prohibition.

A millionaire's abandoned swimming pool from the gilded age of one of America's most distinguished families.

This secluded ruin was once a home for exotic plants.

The home, museum, and death site of Kodak's influential founder.

A historic recreation of the golden age of the Erie Canal, abandoned for some time, slowly being restored.

An isolated beacon with a history of grisly murder and a view of some of literature's greatest inspirations.

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

Church in Manhattan holds the bloody sock of Padre Pio, among with many other unusual relics.

A plaque immortalizes the spot where the early American spy said his famous last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

A prohibition era watering hole for the police.

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

An abandoned subway tunnel that could have reinvigorated Staten Island still lies somewhere beneath this Brooklyn park.