Places Marbles07 Wants to Go

Peek through the gates at this oasis from the city, full of Old English charm.

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

This ruined fort hidden at the top of Central Park can't seem to keep from losing its historical plaques.

A band of aerialists and circus performers putting on incredible shows in East Williamsburg.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

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

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York’s only fraction of a street.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

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

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

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

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

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

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