Places samanthahale Wants to Go

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

Walking around West Harlem reveals a scavenger hunt of beautiful bird murals.

A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.

This Manhattan museum houses one of the largest collections of Spanish art and manuscripts outside of Spain.

The studio of influential composer Charles Ives is perfectly reconstructed, hidden in the back of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

A crumbling staircase in upper Manhattan is all that remains of one of the most important sites in sports history.

Final resting place of Typhoid Mary.

The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.

A discreet little stairway on St. Nicholas Avenue leads to a quaint and unexpected cobblestone street of 19th century wooden rowhouses.

An isolated beacon with a history of grisly murder and a view of some of literature's greatest inspirations.

Legendary private island in the Bronx...devoid of rats.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.

This Bronx apartment building is officially recognized as the birthplace of hip-hop.

The highest point on the island known for buildings that touch the sky.

This abandoned caretaker's apartment is one of 13 left in the New York Public Library system.

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

The first "Hall of Fame" in America was designed by legendary Gilded Age architect Stanford White for what was then the NYU uptown campus.

Hundreds of iconic jazz records were made in this church-like space.

Surrounded by low rise buildings and partially converted into an auto body shop, this marble archway is the only vestige of a forgotten Manhattan estate.

This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.

A monument stands to the famous suffragist who penned the declaration for women's equal rights, including the right to vote.

Small monoliths of several varieties of stone sit alongside a wooded path in the Bronx.