Places JustLostIt Wants to Go

Two mermen, eternally spitting into each other's mouths.

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

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

The final resting place of some of Staten Island's earliest settlers and their descendants.

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

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Abandoned 19th century homes once occupied by naval officers, soon to be demolished.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.

Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.

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

Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.

The most unloved grain elevator in Brooklyn was a “Magnificent Mistake.”

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

An abandoned horticulture institute gloomily presides over rows of derelict and vine-wrought greenhouses.

This dilapidated castle-like structure overlooks the Hudson River at one of its widest points and was once home to nuns.

An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.

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

A former seaside jewel built for the everyman is now simply a neglected art deco fortress.