Places katherineconnelly Wants to Go

Home on the Hillside, and home of the first breakfast cereal.

A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.

Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.

The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.

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

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

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.