Places leilat Wants to Go

Collect holy water from a Bronx grotto.

Haunted Victorian house that inspired a legendary "Ghostbusters" court ruling.

The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

This tiny little island has, as the name says, just enough room for its single house.

This museum dedicated to the history of the medical bone trade and human osteology.

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

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

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

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

The oldest living tree in Manhattan comes shrouded in sinister legend.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

Volunteer-run library dedicated to exploring five decades of activism history.

The loneliest island in New York.

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

At this site, two historic stone bridges spanning the Sing Sing Kill—one right on top of the other.

This monument to the victims of a tragic explosion is said to turn and look at passing cars.

The childhood home of the legendary blues guitarist and singer.

This historic drug store-turned-museum served an important role in the Civil Rights Movement.