Places Shylaann Wants to Go

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.

The beautiful tunnel that ran from the lobby to Penn Station is still hidden underneath 34th Street.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

Become a prohibition rebel.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.