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Liberty, New York
Ruins of Grossinger's Resort
This once luxurious Catskills resort is now a haunting ruin.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
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Peninsula, Ohio
Helltown, Ohio
The tragic reality of a village riddled with rumors of haunts, chemical spills, and serial killers.
New York, New York
Explorers Club Headquarters
A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.
Savannah, Georgia
Colonial Park Cemetery
One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.
Savannah, Georgia
The Paris Market
This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.
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New Orleans, Louisiana
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Boarding House
A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.
New York, New York
Roosevelt Island Octagon Tower
A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.
Woodstock, New York
Overlook Mountain House Ruins
A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.
Sleepy Hollow, New York
Kykuit, the Rockefeller Estate
The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.
Beacon, New York
Bannerman's Castle
Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.
Cold Spring, New York
Ruins of the Cornish Estate
A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.
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.
Brooklyn, New York
The Remains of Abraham & Straus Department Store
The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.
Queens, New York
Fort Tilden
This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.
Brooklyn, New York
Floyd Bennett Field
The home of aviation trailblazers, in a remote corner of the big city.
New York, New York
Campbell Apartment
A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.
New York, New York
Strecker Memorial Laboratory
Site of the first pathological and bacteriological research facility in the United States.
New York, New York
Roosevelt Island Tramway
One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.
New York, New York
The Peace Fountain at Cathedral of St. John the Divine
A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.
New York, New York
Trinity Churchyard
This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Saint Roch Chapel
A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Mardi Gras World
This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Napoleon House
A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Louisiana’s Civil War Museum at Confederate Memorial Hall
The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.
