Places eapya Wants to Go

All that remains of a magnate's dream home is a historic gate and an abandoned public pool.

New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.

A monument stands to the famous suffragist who penned the declaration for women's equal rights, including the right to vote.

Hundreds of numbered stakes hidden in the woods mark the graves of the lost souls of a nearby asylum.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

Some of the earliest burial grounds of New York State are to be found hidden away in this quaint town.

Small monoliths of several varieties of stone sit alongside a wooded path in the Bronx.

A tiny islet just off Long Island offers a wealth of infectious curiosities.

A beautiful final resting place with some surprising residents.

The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.

The first American home of the isolated, egalitarian religion has a trove of Shaker architecture and artifacts.

A mysterious air force base built to resemble a Long Island fishing village.

A heartbreaking monument showing the last morning in the life of Jane Griffith.

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

The original Uncle Sam was actually a New York meatpacker who is buried under this historic grave.

An 1883 schoolhouse now home to collective of artists.

The former home of the reclusive "Weird Wendels" who dominated New York real estate a century before Donald Trump.

A burial ground of rusting metal grave markers.

Final resting place for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire’s unidentified victims.

This lovely little pond is named after the hundreds of soldiers' corpses that were rolled into the waters during the French-Indian War.

This once sprawling resort now sits abandoned, filled with graffiti and vibrant colors from an era long passed.

"Call for the doctor, call for the nurse... Vote!! said the lady with the alligator purse."

The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.