New York, New York
Old City Hall Station
The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?
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New York, New York
The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?
Queens, New York
A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.
Kings Park, New York
Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.
Brooklyn, New York
A massive art collective tries a new take on Brooklyn's DIY music scene—by making it fully legal.
Queens, New York
This Queens hospital has stood abandoned for almost 20 years after its patients were secretly relocated in the dead of night.
Flanders, New York
A former poultry store that looks like a giant duck and is one of the "seven wonders" of Long Island.
Sands Point, New York
The former estate of the Guggenheims, part of the opulent Gold Coast that inspired the Great Gatsby.
Haines Falls, New York
A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.
Bridgeport, Connecticut
Connecticut's shot tower is near the end of its life.
New Haven, Connecticut
It looks like a whale, it's part of Yale, and it's best-known by a nickname you can probably work out for yourself.
Hartford, Connecticut
This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.
Rhinebeck, New York
What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.
Staten Island, New York
This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.
Cold Spring, New York
This abandoned ironworks was once the most important military supplier in America.
Roscoe, New York
An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.
Glen Cove, New York
The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.
New York, New York
A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.
Queens, New York
A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.
Woodbury, Connecticut
A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.
Beacon, New York
This abandoned factory on the Hudson River once churned out a million bricks a week.
New York, New York
A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.
Queens, New York
Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.
Queens, New York
The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.
Staten Island, New York
Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.