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Queens, New York
Flushing Meadows-Corona Park
The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.
40.7462, -73.8445
Jersey City, New Jersey
Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal
Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.
40.7070, -74.0350
New York, New York
High Bridge
The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.
40.8424, -73.9303
Thiells, New York
Letchworth Village
Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.
41.2124, -74.0235
Bermuda
The Unfinished Church
Storms, funding, and in-fighting have kept this Bermuda church from ever being completed.
32.3834, -64.6765
Stony Point, New York
Old Letchworth Village Cemetery
Hundreds of numbered stakes hidden in the woods mark the graves of the lost souls of a nearby asylum.
41.2167, -74.0488
Beacon, New York
Ruins of the Mount Beacon Incline Railway
The remains of what was once the world's steepest passenger funicular.
41.4929, -73.9585
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Elfreth's Alley
This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.
39.9528, -75.1424
New York, New York
The Jane Hotel
This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.
40.7382, -74.0094
Nyack, New York
Clausland Mountain Tunnels
These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.
41.0713, -73.9429
Nyack, New York
The Ghost of Nyack
Haunted Victorian house that inspired a legendary "Ghostbusters" court ruling.
41.0963, -73.9156
Barbados
Harrison's Cave
This popular tourist cave was ignored for almost 200 years before being mined into an attraction.
13.1748, -59.5988
Barbados
Project HARP Space Gun
A giant gun barrel in Barbados that once hoped to shoot outer space with science.
13.0772, -59.4755
Conneltown, Barbados
The Animal Flower Cave
Under the desolate and windswept northern coast of Barbados stands a small oasis filled with sea anemones.
13.3344, -59.6131
Oistins, Barbados
The Chase Vault
A Barbados crypt where it's said that the coffins refuse to stay put.
13.0653, -59.5382
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