Places adamthehistorianghosthunter Wants to Go

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

This locally-famous crevasse in New York State is icy all year round.

Those belting out show tunes in this West Village piano bar might not realize it marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

An abandoned 19th century quarry in the middle of the woods, remade by unnamed wanderers into a massive series of rock thrones.

This tiny church near Sleepy Hollow contains Henri Matisse's last work, a rose window, and nine windows by Marc Chagall.

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.

A mysterious echo seems to defy the laws of acoustics.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

This sandstone gorge in New York State's Adirondack Mountains is home to waterfalls, flumes, and more.

The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.

More than 300,000 historical artifacts from the famous music venue, from Duke Ellington's handwritten score to The Beatles' booking slip.

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.

A Manhattan office building is home to the world’s largest chess board.

A uniquely lettered street sign marks the corner where the iconic word game was invented.

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.

This Queens hospital has stood abandoned for almost 20 years after its patients were secretly relocated in the dead of night.

Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.

Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.