Places positivelypossessed Wants to Go

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

Prove you deserve to be fed by Kenny Shopsin.

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

The loneliest island in New York.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

This imposing 20th-century castle was abandoned before it was ever completed.

Macabre symbols of death and mummies on display set the tone of this Italian purgatory church.

The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.

Curtiss is a forgotten figure in the early history of flight.

There once was a man named Lear / Who found limericks so dear / His final resting space / Is an unusual place / Most people don’t know he’s here.

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

The unusual lighthouse looms over waves of prairies with no sea in sight.

A cylinder monument with a spectacular vista commemorates a friendship that some say never existed.

The site where hundreds of Greeks were tortured by the Nazi secret police is now a cosmetics store.

The train platform where Jews were sent to concentration camps is now preserved as a Holocaust memorial.

Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.