Mount Washington, Massachusetts
Bash Bish Falls
One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Rhinebeck, New York
Wilderstein Mansion
The life of one of FDR's possible mistresses is preserved in her palatial Hudson Valley mansion.
Permanently Closed
Poughkeepsie, New York
Hudson River State Hospital
This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.
Carmel Hamlet, New York
New York's Chuang Yen Monastery
The largest Buddha statue in the Western Hemisphere is just 50 miles north of NYC.
Permanently Closed
Beacon, New York
Dennings Point Ruins
This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.
Beacon, New York
Old Beacon Hat Mill
A 19th century hat factory still stands as a crumbling ruin in upstate New York.
Beacon, New York
Ruins of the Mount Beacon Incline Railway
The remains of what was once the world's steepest passenger funicular.
Cold Spring, New York
Ruins of the Cornish Estate
A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.
Tomkins Cove, New York
Bear Mountain Walt Whitman Statue
The poet's been ambling through these New York woods since 1940.
Tomkins Cove, New York
Doodletown
Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.
Anacapri, Italy
Grotta Azzurra (Blue Grotto)
The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.
