Staten Island, New York
Willowbrook State School
Failed state-supported institution meant to rehabilitate students with intellectual disabilities.
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Staten Island, New York
Failed state-supported institution meant to rehabilitate students with intellectual disabilities.
Brooklyn, New York
This museum dedicated to the history of the medical bone trade and human osteology.
Queens, New York
A young woman's senseless murder led to the controversial psychological theory of the "bystander effect."
Brooklyn, New York
Final resting place for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire’s unidentified victims.
New York, New York
Jimi Hendrix's legendary recording studio in Greenwich Village.
Queens, New York
A remnant from the golden age of aviation still in use today, Pan Am's Clipper service took off from this Art Deco gem.
Queens, New York
Where the four original members of the Ramones hung out and revolutionized punk rock.
New York, New York
Established in 1937, the oldest candy shop in New York City boasts a rainbow-colored inventory that would make Willy Wonka envious.
New York, New York
You must take the A train... to the last active cemetery in Manhattan.
Queens, New York
The best B-movies filmed on a shoestring budget were born here.
New York, New York
The mummified relics of an American missionary.
Brooklyn, New York
19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.
Queens, New York
One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.
New York, New York
More than 300,000 historical artifacts from the famous music venue, from Duke Ellington's handwritten score to The Beatles' booking slip.
New York, New York
A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.
Brooklyn, New York
Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.
New York, New York
The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.
New York, New York
A Manhattan Episcopal church with an eerie underground crypt.
Brooklyn, New York
A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.
Queens, New York
Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.
Brooklyn, New York
One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.
New York, New York
Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.
New York, New York
Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.
New York, New York
Hear the tales of New York's most notorious criminals.