Stonington, Connecticut
Severed Arm of Saint Edmund
How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?
Places I've been
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Stonington, Connecticut
How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Berlin, Maryland
Explore the legends surrounding these mythical sea creatures inside this museum.
Berlin, Maryland
The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.
Roxbury, Connecticut
The remnants of a 19th-century ironmaking complex hidden in the woods of Connecticut.
Stony Point, New York
Hundreds of numbered stakes hidden in the woods mark the graves of the lost souls of a nearby asylum.
Beacon, New York
The remains of what was once the world's steepest passenger funicular.
Thiells, New York
Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.
Wingdale, New York
An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.
Cold Spring, New York
A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.
Beacon, New York
Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.
Wassaic, New York
These conical kilns measure an impressive 30 feet in diameter, and were once used to produce charcoal for a local blast furnace.
Dover Plains, New York
This natural rock "church" might not be a proper chapel but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.
Staatsburg, New York
An unassuming island in the middle of the Hudson that hosts campers, including Aleister Crowley.
Highland, New York
The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.
Pawling, New York
The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.
Beacon, New York
Home to the abandoned Tioronda Hat Works Factory, this park is a combination of woodlands and marshlands.
Beacon, New York
A 19th century hat factory still stands as a crumbling ruin in upstate New York.
Carmel Hamlet, New York
The largest Buddha statue in the Western Hemisphere is just 50 miles north of NYC.