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The Wealdway in Five Hundred Acre Wood

Hartfield, England

Five Hundred Acre Wood

The forest that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood can be found outside London.

Fairy Rock behind Saltom Pit

Whitehaven, England

Fairy Rock

Local legends say that fairies used to dance in the moonlight here and invite handsome young men into their grottoes.

Ruins on Corregidor Island.

Cavite City, Philippines

Corregidor Island

The ruins on a deserted tropical island in the Philippines bear the scars of WWII.

El Peñon de Guatape

El Peñol, Colombia

El Peñon de Guatape

A 10 million-ton rock once worshiped by the Tahamies Indians, accessed by an astounding staircase.

Montaña Mágica Lodge

Panguipulli, Chile

Montaña Mágica Lodge

This odd Chilean waterfall-cano hotel must be entered via a rope bridge.

St. Peter's exterior

Cardross, Scotland

The Ruins of St. Peter's Seminary

One of Scotland's most important modern structures, it just made the '100 Most Endangered Sites' list.

Manhattan schist

New York, New York

Hallett Nature Sanctuary

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

6 1/2 Avenue street sign.

New York, New York

6 1/2 Avenue: Manhattan’s Secret Street

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York’s only fraction of a street.

Central Park

Queens, New York

Panorama of the City of New York

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

The Louis Armstrong House

Queens, New York

Louis Armstrong House

The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.

Detail of the Texaco map terrazzo mosaic tile floor of the New York State Pavilion (Tent of Tomorrow), 2009

Queens, New York

Flushing Meadows-Corona Park

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

Abandoned Kings Park Psychiatric Center
Permanently Closed

Kings Park, New York

Abandoned Kings Park Psychiatric Center

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

Inside one of the changing rooms

Centerport, New York

William Vanderbilt's Abandoned Salt Water Pool

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

Bannerman's Castle

Beacon, New York

Bannerman's Castle

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

Medfield State Hospital

Medfield, Massachusetts

Medfield State Hospital

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

Zelda Fitzgerald's Abandoned Sanatorium.

Beacon, New York

Zelda Fitzgerald's Abandoned Sanatorium

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

Hudson River State Hospital
Permanently Closed

Poughkeepsie, New York

Hudson River State Hospital

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

Letchworth Village canteen and kitchen

Thiells, New York

Letchworth Village

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

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.

One of the formidable Harris Batteries.

Queens, New York

Fort Tilden

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.

1920s Subway Car complete with ceiling fansPhoto by Curious Expeditions

Brooklyn, New York

New York Transit Museum

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

Hess' Triangle

New York, New York

Hess Triangle

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

RMS Titanic Memorial. Photo by Tommy Rudnick.
Permanently Closed

Queens, New York

RMS Titanic Memorial

Townhouse facade doubles as an RMS Titanic Memorial.

Greenacre Park

New York, New York

Greenacre Park

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

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