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Anna Minster

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2018

Whether I am at home or on the road, I can always be found halfway between Cincinnati and Toledo.
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 Denton House McDonald's

New Hyde Park, New York

Denton House McDonald's

This outpost of America's most popular fast-food restaurant is housed inside a palatial mansion.

Sleight Family Graveyard

Staten Island, New York

Sleight Family Graveyard

The final resting place of some of Staten Island's earliest settlers and their descendants.

Tehachapi Loop

Tehachapi, California

Tehachapi Loop

Where a railroad loops under or over itself to rise or drop more than 70 feet in a short distance.

Gravesend historical sign (though Lady Deborah was associated with Anabaptism, not Quakerism)

Brooklyn, New York

Gravesend

Nearly four centuries after its founding, remnants of one of the oldest planned communities in North America are still visible in southern Brooklyn.

Interior of the deli

Brooklyn, New York

Mill Basin Kosher Delicatessen

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

The Ganesh Temple of Queens

Queens, New York

The Ganesh Temple of Queens

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

St. Nicholas Orthodox Church

Queens, New York

St. Nicholas Orthodox Church

This Orthodox Church's exterior is rather unorthodox.

Abandoned fort ruins

Queens, New York

Fort Totten

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

Creedmoor Psychiatric Center's Building 25
Permanently Closed

Queens, New York

Creedmoor Psychiatric Center's Building 25

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

Lagman House's classic lamian.
Permanently Closed

Brooklyn, New York

Lagman House

The cuisine at this Sheepshead Bay spot tells the story of a displaced Muslim Chinese community.

Neponsit Health Care Center
Permanently Closed

Queens, New York

Neponsit Health Care Center

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

Dead Horse Bay
Permanently Closed

Brooklyn, New York

Dead Horse Bay

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

Electric Lady Studios

New York, New York

Electric Lady Studios

Jimi Hendrix's legendary recording studio in Greenwich Village.

The Old Dutch Church

Sleepy Hollow, New York

Headless Horseman Bridge

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

James Corbett Home

Queens, New York

James Corbett Home

The home of former Heavyweight Boxing Champion, "Gentleman Jim" Corbett.

The main house as it appeared in 1911

Syosset, New York

Ruins of King Zog's Estate

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

The Hidden Colonial Cemeteries of Oyster Bay

Oyster Bay, New York

The Hidden Colonial Cemeteries of Oyster Bay

Some of the earliest burial grounds of New York State are to be found hidden away in this quaint town.

The Queens Giant, all 133 ft. of her.

Queens, New York

The Alley Pond Giant

The oldest living organism in New York City. Maybe.

Fountain of the Planet of the Apes

Queens, New York

Fountain of the Planet of the Apes

No monkeying around, this fountain was really named after the classic sci-fi film.

LaGuardia Landing Lights Park

Queens, New York

LaGuardia Landing Lights Park

Nine nice parcels of land along a flight path offer a quiet respite... until a plane soars overhead.

The store responsible for Broome Street's title

New York, New York

284 Broome Street

The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.

Staten Island's stone cairn garden.
Permanently Closed

Staten Island, New York

Mount Loretto Beach Rock Garden

Eccentric stone cairns built on a public New York City beach.

Kreischer Mansion

Staten Island, New York

Kreischer Mansion

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

Tugboat Graveyard

Staten Island, New York

Tugboat Graveyard

Final resting place of two dozen New York City harbor ships.

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