Places sameesuicide Wants to Go

An abandoned horticulture institute gloomily presides over rows of derelict and vine-wrought greenhouses.

This fancifully decorated Victorian home in New York’s Hudson Valley is the only known fully domed octagonal residence in the United States.

At this site, two historic stone bridges spanning the Sing Sing Kill—one right on top of the other.

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

A winding, cliffside stretch of road overlooking the Delaware River.

The remnants of a luxurious resort that saw its peak in the 1970s and 1980s has been abandoned since 2009, leaving behind the wreckage of both the hotel and a beautiful ice skating rink.

These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.

This derelict building used to house infirm Freemasons, their widows, and orphans.

This abandoned ironworks was once the most important military supplier in America.

This isolated community does not want you to visit.

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

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

This elaborate High Victorian Gothic structure is one of the world's few 16-sided buildings.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

Now the final resting place of prominent artists and musicians, it was originally founded to separate the rich from the poor in death.

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

Tucked away on the second floor of a small town library is one of the great private Victorian taxidermy collections looking today very much like it did in 1909.

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

The library of every book lover's dreams.