Places esftripod Wants to Go

There’s a secret bunker inside the Brooklyn Bridge, but the city won’t say where.

A deteriorating 1990s Girl Scout camp in a beautiful lush park on Lake Ontario.

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

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

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

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

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.

The loneliest island in New York.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

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

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

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