Places Mabel Wants to Go

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

The remains of what was once the world's steepest passenger funicular.

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

This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.

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

This sprawling woodland estate was the brainchild of iconic American industrial designer Russel Wright.

Astonishing collection of helmets, scientific instruments, and medical models.

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

Hundreds of numbered stakes hidden in the woods mark the graves of the lost souls of a nearby asylum.

The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.