Poughkeepsie, New York
Hudson River State Hospital
This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.
Places I've been
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Poughkeepsie, New York
This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.
Hyde Park, New York
"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."
Kingston, New York
An abandoned dollhouse factory.
Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.
Thiells, New York
Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.
Medfield, Massachusetts
Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.
Beacon, New York
Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.
Brooklyn, New York
First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.
Toronto, Ontario
A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.
Roscoe, New York
An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.
Sleepy Hollow, New York
Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
Hamburg, New Jersey
Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.
Berlin, Maryland
The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.
Montague, Massachusetts
Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.
Salem, Massachusetts
"Try not to knock anything over!"
Salem, Massachusetts
Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."