New York, New York
Roosevelt Island Smallpox Hospital Ruins
A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.
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New York, New York
A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.
Brooklyn, New York
A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
New York, New York
Long-forgotten artifacts give incredible insight into New York's most glamorous hotel.
Brooklyn, New York
HBO series' stage tucked away in a Greenpoint lot is the largest theatrical set of its kind in the United States.
New York, New York
The artist and New York City icon lived, worked and died in this converted carriage house owned by another iconic artist, Andy Warhol.
New York, New York
New York City's only preserved family home from the 19th century.
New York, New York
The fanciest public restroom in New York City boasts fresh flowers, art, and a classical music soundtrack.
New York, New York
What happens here stays here – unless it affects the whole world.
New York, New York
A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.
New York, New York
This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.
New York, New York
Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.
New York, New York
Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.
New York, New York
Join in a Seance at the Swedenborgian Church.
New York, New York
The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.
Plymouth, Massachusetts
Plymouth's huge yet little-known memorial to the Pilgrims.
Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.
Sandwich, Massachusetts
This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.
Sandwich, Massachusetts
35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.
Danvers, Massachusetts
This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.
Dunning, Scotland
A mysterious monument where a woman who records say never existed was burnt alive for being a witch.
Edinburgh, Scotland
The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.
Danvers, Massachusetts
Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.
Asbury Park, New Jersey
Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.
Jersey City, New Jersey
A simple plaque remembers an act of WWI terrorism that obliterated an island and forever scarred the Statue of Liberty.