Places bjjsquirrel Wants to Go

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.

This abandoned cemetery is crumbling into ruin, exposing the artifacts and bodies buried there.

A 19th century hat factory still stands as a crumbling ruin in upstate New York.

The site where chief Miantonomo of the Narraganset people was captured.

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

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

A distillery built on (and above!) mobster Dutch Schultz's Prohibition-era underground moonshine business.

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

Underground tunnels remain beneath this abandoned mental asylum.

Made of bronze and wearing a blue gown, this lady sat in the same location in the Yantic Cemetery for more than 119 years.

Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.

This forgotten graveyard in rural New York State once served a pioneering hospital.

This high-perched pachyderm marks the memory of not one, but two elephants gunned down in small New England towns.

The former residence of Elizabeth “Mumbet” Freeman, an enslaved African-American woman who successfully sued for her freedom.

Home of Philip Johnson, one of the 20th century's most influential architects.

Mansion and shopping center used in the 1975 film "The Stepford Wives."

Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.

House used in the 1971 horror film "Let's Scare Jessica to Death."

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement served food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

An abandoned Victorian-era mill in the middle of modern Manchester.