Glen Cove, New York
Welwyn Preserve
The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.
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Glen Cove, New York
The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.
Brooklyn, New York
A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.
New Paltz, New York
This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.
New York, New York
Revolutionary War casualties fill the only 17th century structure remaining in Manhattan.
Beacon, New York
This abandoned cemetery is crumbling into ruin, exposing the artifacts and bodies buried there.
New Hyde Park, New York
This outpost of America's most popular fast-food restaurant is housed inside a palatial mansion.
Brooklyn, New York
19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.
Brooklyn, New York
Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.
Tappan, New York
This derelict building used to house infirm Freemasons, their widows, and orphans.
Queens, New York
A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.
Queens, New York
Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.
Elka Park, New York
An abandoned 19th century quarry in the middle of the woods, remade by unnamed wanderers into a massive series of rock thrones.
Dover Plains, New York
This natural rock "church" might not be a proper chapel but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.
Brentwood, New York
A formerly abandoned mental institute, now back in business.
Nyack, New York
These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.
Sodus, New York
A deteriorating 1990s Girl Scout camp in a beautiful lush park on Lake Ontario.
Kingston, New York
The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.
Brooklyn, New York
A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.
New York, New York
A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.
Hyde Park, New York
"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."
Wingdale, New York
An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.
Alexandria Bay, New York
A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.
New York, New York
The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.
Poughkeepsie, New York
This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.