Brooklyn, New York
Site of 1928 gang shooting
Retribution for death of infamous mob boss Franie Yale was a case of mistaken identity.
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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Brooklyn, New York
Site of Joe Gallo's 1950s Headquarters
The site where Joe Gallo kept his guns, pet lion, and launched an all out mob war in 1960s Brooklyn.
Brooklyn, New York
Mafia Executioner Albert Anastasia's 1920s Home
Where infamous mobster and leader of Murder Inc. Albert Anastasia made his home.
New York, New York
Nathan Hale Hanging Site
A plaque immortalizes the spot where the early American spy said his famous last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
New York, New York
The Remnants of Tin Pan Alley
The one-time epicenter of American songwriting is now a little remembered Manhattan commercial block.
New York, New York
The Last Remnants of the Polo Grounds
A crumbling staircase in upper Manhattan is all that remains of one of the most important sites in sports history.
New York, New York
The Weathermen Townhouse Explosion
A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.
New York, New York
Bennett Park
The highest point on the island known for buildings that touch the sky.
New York, New York
Site of New York Slave Market
Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.
New York, New York
Tammany Hall
The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.
New York, New York
Museum at Eldridge Street
America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.
New York, New York
Lenin Statue at Red Square
Salute the leader of the proletariat.
Brooklyn, New York
The Old Headquarters of Murder, Inc.
This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.
New York, New York
The Relic Chapel at the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer
Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.
New York, New York
Plaque of Nikola Tesla on Radio Wave Building
The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.
New York, New York
The Hidden Holocaust Memorial of Madison Park
A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.
Middletown, Connecticut
Joseph Barratt's Grave
The gravestone of an eccentric Connecticut doctor features dinosaur tracks and a pair of fossil tree casts.
Windham, Connecticut
Thread City Crossing Bridge
Public outcry led to this bridge's unique character which celebrates a giant frog battle and also sewing.
Hartford, Connecticut
Hartford Circus Fire Memorial
Memorial to one of the most fatal fires in both circus and U.S. history.
New Haven, Connecticut
Grave of Midnight Mary
Final resting place of a New Haven urban legend.
Hartford, Connecticut
Ancient Burying Ground
The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.
Farmington, Connecticut
Hospital Rock
These etchings reveal the history of a long-gone quarantine site.
New Haven, Connecticut
Skull and Bones Tomb
The headquarters of the famous Yale society.
Southington, Connecticut
Snedeker House
The "possessed" house that inspired "The Haunting in Connecticut" book and movie.
