Places eapya Wants to Go

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

The loneliest island in New York.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

This ruined fort hidden at the top of Central Park can't seem to keep from losing its historical plaques.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

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

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

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

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

After four years of grasshopper plagues, this chapel was erected as a plea to God to make them end.

An abandoned bus station transformed into a museum dedicated to the history of Greyhound Lines, in the place where it all began.