Boston, Massachusetts
Warren Anatomical Museum
This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.
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Boston, Massachusetts
This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.
Poughkeepsie, New York
This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.
Newcomb, New York
An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.
Mount Tremper, New York
The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.
Brooklyn, New York
Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.
Ithaca, New York
In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.
Dansville, New York
Home on the Hillside, and home of the first breakfast cereal.
Amityville, New York
The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.
Liberty, New York
This once luxurious Catskills resort is now a haunting ruin.
Rhinebeck, New York
What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.
Kings Park, New York
Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.
New York, New York
Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."
Shoreham, New York
An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.
New York, New York
This ruined fort hidden at the top of Central Park can't seem to keep from losing its historical plaques.
New York, New York
From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.
Bronx, New York
Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.
Woodstock, New York
A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.
New York, New York
Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.
New York, New York
One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.
New York, New York
A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.
Waltham, Massachusetts
Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.
Coquitlam, British Columbia
Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.
Weston, West Virginia
A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.
Queens, New York
A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.