New York, New York
Secret Apartment in the Fort Washington Library
This abandoned caretaker's apartment is one of 13 left in the New York Public Library system.
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New York, New York
This abandoned caretaker's apartment is one of 13 left in the New York Public Library system.
Tonopah, Nevada
There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.
New York, New York
A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.
New York, New York
From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.
New York, New York
The beautiful tunnel that ran from the lobby to Penn Station is still hidden underneath 34th Street.
New York, New York
The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.
New York, New York
The world's oldest hologram gallery and the labyrinthine laser laboratory of a holography pioneer.
New York, New York
The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.
New York, New York
A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.
New York, New York
A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.
New York, New York
A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.
New York, New York
This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.
New York, New York
The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.
Brooklyn, New York
Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.
New York, New York
This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.
New York, New York
This narrow shop in the East Village hosts a matchmaking service for the new millennium.
New York, New York
Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.
New York, New York
Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.
New York, New York
This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.
New York, New York
A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."
Portland, Maine
Explore the dark underground corridors of this graffiti-covered former military fortification.
Laconia, New Hampshire
The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.
Salem, New Hampshire
America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.
Chesterfield, New Hampshire
Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.