Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Eastern State Penitentiary
The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Thiells, New York
Letchworth Village
Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.
Queens, New York
Panorama of the City of New York
The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.
Bellerose, New York
Queens County Farm Museum
The oldest continuously operating farm in New York State.
New Hyde Park, New York
Denton House McDonald's
This outpost of America's most popular fast-food restaurant is housed inside a palatial mansion.
Queens, New York
Fort Totten
Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.
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.
New York, New York
Brooklyn Bridge Love Locks
A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.
Amityville, New York
Amityville Horror House
The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.
Syosset, New York
Ruins of King Zog's Estate
An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.
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.
