Point Lookout, Missouri
Ralph Foster Museum
This museum features the original car used on the Beverly Hillbillies sitcom.
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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Alnwick, England
Alnwick Poison Garden
The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”
New York, New York
Old City Hall Station
The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?
Brooklyn, New York
Sunshine Laundromat
One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.
North Pole, Alaska
Santa Claus House
A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.
Boston, Massachusetts
The Ether Dome
19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!
Somerville, Massachusetts
Museum of Modern Renaissance
This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.
Permanently Closed
Kings Park, New York
Abandoned Kings Park Psychiatric Center
Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.
New York, New York
Track 61
This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.
New York, New York
Toynbee Tiles
Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.
New York, New York
77 Water Street
A WWI fighter plane and turn-of-the-century penny candy shop are among the unexpected features of this Financial District building.
Brooklyn, New York
Atlantic Avenue Tunnel
In the middle of downtown Brooklyn lies a 165 year old secret hidden right below the surface (closed to the public indefinitely).
New York, New York
5 Beekman Street
This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.
New York, New York
Burger Joint
Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.
New York, New York
P.S. 186
From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.
Bern, Switzerland
The Child Eater of Bern
A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.
Oyster Bay, New York
Raynham Hall Museum
Spies, love letters, and ghost stories have all left their mark on this home-cum-museum.
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.
Brentwood, New York
Pilgrim Psychiatric Center
A formerly abandoned mental institute, now back in business.
Fall River, Massachusetts
Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast and Museum
Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.
Exeter, Rhode Island
Grave of Mercy Brown
The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."
Montauk, New York
Camp Hero
A mysterious air force base built to resemble a Long Island fishing village.
Orient, New York
Plum Island Animal Disease Center
A tiny islet just off Long Island offers a wealth of infectious curiosities.
Fishers Island, New York
North Dumpling Island
Want to build a wind turbine? Secede from the nation.
