Places shadowsandrust Wants to Go

This abandoned cemetery is crumbling into ruin, exposing the artifacts and bodies buried there.

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

See wolves, coyotes, and arctic foxes in a natural environment smack in the middle of New York State.

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.

A formerly abandoned mental institute, now back in business.

This once-grand marvel of engineering is now 41 miles of scenic hiking trail.

Feral cats keeping the rodent population at bay all across Greenpoint waterfront.

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

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.

This Central New York ghost town was once a prosperous railroad community.

Haven for steampunks.

An abandoned Gold Coast-era mansion once intended for the exiled ruler of Albania, who never arrived.

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

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.

A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.

A deteriorating 1990s Girl Scout camp in a beautiful lush park on Lake Ontario.

An oasis of calm amid the chaos of the boardwalk, the museum traces the heritage of this beloved beachside amusement park.