Haunted New York

167 haunted destinations cataloged across New York, spanning 62 counties. The collection features museum, outdoor, and cemetery — every listing verified with family ratings, accessibility info, and practical visit logistics.

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Yaddo — Queen Anne-style mansion and artists' retreat in Saratoga Springs, NY
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Haunted House / Historic Home

Yaddo

Saratoga Springs, NY

Yaddo is a 55-room Queen Anne-style mansion on a 400-acre estate purchased by financier Spencer Trask and writer Katrina Trask in 1881. After the deaths of all four of their children and the destruction of the original house by fire in 1891, the Trasks built the current mansion and in 1900 conceived of it as a future retreat for artists; the first residents arrived in 1926. The estate is now the largest artist-residency program in the United States.

$ All Ages Family: High
Woodlawn Cemetery monuments and Civil War memorial section in Syracuse New York
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Woodlawn Cemetery

Syracuse, NY

Woodlawn Cemetery Association was incorporated in April 1881 to provide a picturesque burial ground for the growing city of Syracuse. The non-denominational, non-profit cemetery spans roughly 160 acres on Grant Boulevard on the city's north side and includes a Civil War memorial section honoring more than 100 soldiers interred there, along with a Sunset Mausoleum Complex for above-ground entombment.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate
1850 Syracuse Weighlock Building, home of the Erie Canal Museum
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Museum / Historical Site

Erie Canal Museum

Syracuse, NY

The Erie Canal Museum occupies the 1850 Syracuse Weighlock Building, the last surviving structure of its kind in the United States. The building served as a working weighlock — essentially a giant scale for canal boats determining toll fees — from 1850 until weighing was discontinued in 1883. The museum was founded as a private non-profit in 1962, and the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

$ All Ages Family: High
Marriott Syracuse Downtown historic 1924 hotel facade on East Onondaga Street
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Haunted Hotel / Inn

Marriott Syracuse Downtown (Hotel Syracuse)

Syracuse, NY

The Hotel Syracuse opened on August 16, 1924, designed by William Stone Post of George B. Post & Sons — an architectural firm whose other work includes the New York Stock Exchange Building. After bankruptcy and closure in 2004, the hotel was acquired in 2014 by developer Ed Riley, who led a $57 million restoration. The building reopened as Marriott Syracuse Downtown on August 19, 2016, and was inducted into Historic Hotels of America.

$$$ All Ages Family: High
The Gideon Putnam — 1935 Georgian Revival resort hotel in Saratoga Spa State Park, NY
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Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Gideon Putnam

Saratoga Springs, NY

The Gideon Putnam Hotel opened in 1935 inside Saratoga Spa State Park and is named for Gideon Putnam (1763-1812), the entrepreneur who founded Saratoga Springs in the early 1800s. Putnam built the city's original Putnam's Tavern and Boarding House (later Grand Union) in 1803 and began Congress Hall in 1811. While overseeing construction of Congress Hall, he fell from scaffolding and broke ribs; he died December 1, 1812, of pneumonia complications. The hotel is a National Historic Landmark and member of Historic Hotels of America.

$$$ All Ages Family: High
The Arcade Building — 1907 commercial building on Broadway in Saratoga Springs, NY
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Other Dark Tourism Site

The Arcade Building

Saratoga Springs, NY

On June 9, 1902, a devastating fire broke out at 376 Broadway, then home to The Saratogian newspaper, the U.S. Post Office, a bank, and a theater. Five people died and damage was estimated at $200,000 — roughly $4.1 million in today's dollars. The fire is still remembered locally as 'Saratoga's Great Fire.' The replacement Arcade Building opened in 1907 as one of the city's earliest commercial mall structures and remains a working mixed-use building.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

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Brick Stuyvesant-era facade of the Belasco Theatre at 111 West 44th Street in Manhattan's Theater District
Theater / Performance Venue

Belasco Theatre

New York, NY

The Belasco Theatre opened on October 16, 1907, as the Stuyvesant Theatre, designed by George Keister for impresario David Belasco. Renamed in 1910 when Belasco gave up his earlier 42nd Street theatre, the venue served as the laboratory for Belasco's experiments in stage naturalism and remains an active Shubert Organization Broadway theatre.

$$$$ Varies by production Family: High
The red-brick Victorian Gothic and Queen Anne Revival exterior of the Hotel Chelsea seen from across West 23rd Street in Manhattan
Haunted Hotel / Inn

Hotel Chelsea

New York, NY

The Hotel Chelsea opened in 1884 at 222 West 23rd Street in Manhattan as a cooperative apartment building, designed in a mix of Victorian Gothic and Queen Anne Revival styles. It became one of the most-storied artists' residences in American culture, housing writers, musicians, and painters across the 20th century. After a multi-year redevelopment, the hotel reopened in 2022 as a boutique hotel and remains a landmarked Manhattan building.

$$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Victorian Gothic facade of Hotel Chelsea on West 23rd Street in Manhattan
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Haunted Hotel / Inn

Hotel Chelsea

New York, NY

The Hotel Chelsea opened in 1884 as a Victorian Gothic and Queen Anne Revival structure designed as a socialist commune where artists and musicians could live and create collectively. It became one of America's most storied residential hotels, home at various times to Mark Twain, Arthur Miller, Dylan Thomas, Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen, Andy Warhol, and Allen Ginsberg. It underwent a comprehensive renovation and reopened in mid-2022.

$$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Looking up the facade of Hotel Des Artistes, above en:Café des Artistes on a cloudy afternoon.
Haunted House / Historic Home

Hotel des Artistes

New York, NY

Hotel des Artistes at 1 West 67th Street in Manhattan was completed in 1917 to a design by architect George Mort Pollard. A group of artists including Walter Russell and Frank DuMond purchased the site in 1914 for $250,000, intending to create live-work studio space with 20-foot atelier ceilings. The building housed Noël Coward, Norman Rockwell, Isadora Duncan, Rudolph Valentino, and writer Fannie Hurst, among many others. In 1929, writer Harry Crosby — nephew of J.P. Morgan — died in a murder-suicide in the building. The property was converted to a full cooperative in 1970.

$ All Ages Family: High
Merchant's House Museum facade at 29 East 4th Street in NoHo, Manhattan — 1832 Federal-style brick home
Museum / Historical Site

Merchant's House Museum

New York, NY

The Merchant's House Museum at 29 East 4th Street is the only 19th-century family home in New York City preserved intact inside and out. Built in 1832 by hatter Joseph Brewster, it was purchased in 1835 by merchant Seabury Tredwell. Eight Tredwell children grew up in the house; the youngest, Gertrude, lived there until her death in 1933.

$$ All Ages Family: High
Morris-Jumel Mansion in Washington Heights, Manhattan — 1765 Palladian villa, oldest extant house in Manhattan
Museum / Historical Site

Morris-Jumel Mansion

New York, NY

The Morris-Jumel Mansion at 65 Jumel Terrace in Washington Heights, Manhattan is the oldest extant house on the island, built in 1765 as a Palladian summer villa for British Colonel Roger Morris. The house served as General George Washington's headquarters from September 14 to October 18, 1776, and later as the home of merchants Stephen and Eliza Jumel. New York City has owned the property since 1903.

$ All Ages Family: High
Exterior of The Ear Inn at 326 Spring Street, formerly the James Brown House, Manhattan
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Haunted Dining / Bar

The Ear Inn (James Brown House)

New York, NY

The James Brown House at 326 Spring Street is an 1817 Federal-style townhouse built for James Brown, an African-American Revolutionary War veteran. A New York City designated landmark, the building has housed a drinking establishment since the mid-19th century. The Ear Inn opened on the ground floor in 1977.

$$ 21+ Family: Moderate
Restored Georgian brick facade of Fraunces Tavern at 54 Pearl Street in Lower Manhattan, photographed in November 2021.
Haunted Dining / Bar

Fraunces Tavern

New York, NY

Fraunces Tavern at 54 Pearl Street in Lower Manhattan was originally built in 1719 as the home of Stephen DeLancey. In 1762 it was purchased by Samuel Fraunces and operated as the Queen's Head Tavern. On December 4, 1783, George Washington bid farewell to his Continental Army officers in the building's Long Room. The complex now operates as a restaurant on the ground floor and a museum on the upper floors.

$$ All Ages Family: High
Federal-style 1817 building at 129 Spring Street between Greene and Wooster Streets in SoHo, Manhattan, site of the preserved Manhattan Well.
Haunted House / Historic Home

Manhattan Well (129 Spring Street)

New York, NY

The Manhattan Well at 129 Spring Street is the preserved late-18th-century well in which 22-year-old Gulielma 'Elma' Sands was murdered on December 22, 1799. The 1800 trial of suspect Levi Weeks — featuring Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr as joint defense counsel — was the first jury trial in the United States to be transcribed in detail and is considered the founding text of American trial advocacy. The well was rediscovered in the building's basement during a 1980 excavation and is preserved today in the lower level of the COS clothing store.

$ All Ages Family: High
Exterior of McSorley's Old Ale House at 15 East 7th Street, East Village
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Haunted Dining / Bar

McSorley's Old Ale House

New York, NY

McSorley's Old Ale House opened in 1854 at 15 East 7th Street as 'The Old House at Home' by Irish immigrant John McSorley. It is self-described as the oldest continuously operated Irish saloon in New York City. The building dates to the mid-19th century and the saloon famously refused to admit women until forced to integrate by court order in 1970.

$ 21+ Family: Not Recommended
Mulberry Street facade of the Basilica of St. Patrick's Old Cathedral in Nolita, Manhattan, photographed on a sunny day.
Other Dark Tourism Site

Basilica of St. Patrick's Old Cathedral

New York, NY

The Basilica of St. Patrick's Old Cathedral, at 263 Mulberry Street in Nolita, was built between 1809 and 1815 to designs by Joseph-François Mangin. It served as the seat of the Archdiocese of New York until 1879, when the present St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue opened. Pope Benedict XVI designated it a basilica in 2010. Its catacombs — among the only true catacombs in the United States — contain 35 family crypts and 5 clerical vaults and have hosted public candlelight tours since 2017.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Brick facade of One If by Land, Two If by Sea restaurant at 17 Barrow Street in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, photographed in 2024.
Haunted Dining / Bar

One If by Land, Two If by Sea

New York, NY

17 Barrow Street is an 18th-century carriage house in Greenwich Village built in 1767. Aaron Burr — the third Vice President of the United States and the man who killed Alexander Hamilton in their 1804 duel — kept his horses and coach at the property from the 1790s until the early 1800s. After service as a firehouse, brothel, and silent-movie theater, the building opened as One If by Land, Two If by Sea restaurant in 1972.

$$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate
The Palace Theatre marquee and facade at 1564 Broadway in Times Square, Manhattan, photographed in 2017
Theater / Performance Venue

Palace Theatre

New York, NY

The Palace Theatre at 1564 Broadway opened on March 24, 1913, designed by Kirchhoff & Rose for vaudeville impresario Martin Beck. For decades it was the most prestigious vaudeville house in America. After vaudeville's decline it was used for film and limited live productions; Judy Garland's record-breaking 19-week run beginning October 16, 1951 is the theater's most famous engagement. The Palace reopened in 2024 after a multi-year renovation that raised the auditorium 30 feet to permit ground-floor retail.

$$$ All Ages Family: High
Exterior view of The Dakota apartment building on 72nd Street at Central Park West, Manhattan
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Haunted House / Historic Home

The Dakota

New York, NY

The Dakota is a luxury cooperative apartment building at 1 West 72nd Street on the Upper West Side, constructed between 1880 and 1884 for businessman Edward Cabot Clark and designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh in German Renaissance style. Widely regarded as New York's first luxury apartment building, it is a National Historic Landmark. Its most famous resident, John Lennon, was murdered in the building's archway on December 8, 1980.

$ All Ages Family: High
Gothic Revival spire of Trinity Church at 75 Broadway with the head of Wall Street and the churchyard tombs in the foreground.
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Other Dark Tourism Site

Trinity Church and Churchyard

New York, NY

Trinity Church's congregation was chartered in 1697 by King William III, who granted the parish the land at the intersection of Broadway and Wall Street. The current Gothic Revival church at 75 Broadway is the third on the site and was consecrated in 1846. The adjacent churchyard contains the graves of Alexander Hamilton, his wife Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, steamboat inventor Robert Fulton, and U.S. Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin.

$ All Ages Family: High

Buffalo — 11

Buffalo and Erie County Naval Military Park museum ships including USS The Sullivans destroyer in Buffalo NY
Museum / Historical Site

Buffalo Naval Park

Buffalo, NY

USS The Sullivans (DD-537) was a Fletcher-class destroyer commissioned in 1943 and named after the five Sullivan brothers who died together when their ship, USS Juneau, was sunk in November 1942. The destroyer served the U.S. Navy through World War II and the Korean War before being decommissioned in 1965. The vessel has served as a museum ship at Buffalo Naval Park since 1977.

$$ All ages Family: Moderate
Richardsonian Romanesque Central Wing of the former Buffalo State Asylum with twin towers in Buffalo NY
Asylum / Hospital

Buffalo Psychiatric Center

Buffalo, NY

The Richardson Olmsted Complex in Buffalo was constructed beginning in 1871 as the Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane, based on the Kirkbride Plan of psychiatric treatment. Designed by renowned architect H.H. Richardson and landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, the 203-acre campus formally opened in 1880. The facility operated as a psychiatric hospital until 1974, when patients were transferred and the complex fell into decay. Modern restoration efforts have partially reopened the campus as Hotel Henry.

$$ 18+ for most facilities due to construction and hazards Family: Low
Central wing and Richardsonian-Romanesque twin towers of the Richardson Olmsted Campus (Buffalo State Asylum) in Buffalo, New York
Museum / Historical Site

Buffalo State Asylum / Richardson Olmsted Campus

Buffalo, NY

The Richardson Olmsted Campus in Buffalo, New York, was designed in 1870 by architect Henry Hobson Richardson, with grounds by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. Built as the Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane on Dr. Thomas Story Kirkbride's plan, it opened to patients in 1880 and operated as a psychiatric hospital until 1974. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1986.

$$ All Ages Family: High
Mausoleums and mature trees at Forest Lawn Cemetery on Delaware Avenue in Buffalo, New York
Cemetery / Burial Ground

Forest Lawn Cemetery (Buffalo)

Buffalo, NY

Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo, New York, was founded in 1849 by Charles E. Clarke as one of America's first purpose-designed rural cemeteries. The 269-acre grounds contain nearly 170,000 burials, including 13th President Millard Fillmore, Seneca chief Red Jacket, Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, and musician Rick James.

$ All Ages Family: High
Main building of the former Medaille University campus on Agassiz Circle in Buffalo, New York
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Other Dark Tourism Site

Medaille University (Former Campus)

Buffalo, NY

Medaille University in Buffalo, New York was founded in 1937 by the Sisters of St. Joseph, named for the order's founder Jean Paul Médaille. The institution closed permanently on August 31, 2023, after holding its final commencement ceremony in May of that year. The campus was subsequently sold and now houses BuffSci Charter School.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate
The 17-story 1929 Art Deco tower of Buffalo Central Terminal seen from East Lovejoy Street in the Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood
Museum / Historical Site

Buffalo Central Terminal

Buffalo, NY

Designed by Fellheimer & Wagner for the New York Central Railroad and opened June 22, 1929, the 17-story Art Deco terminal stood as a monument to Buffalo's role as one of the nation's busiest rail hubs. At peak it handled more than 200 trains and 10,000 passengers daily. Passenger service ended in 1979 and the structure deteriorated until preservation efforts began in the 1990s.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Iron Island Museum at 998 East Lovejoy Street in Buffalo, New York, the former 1883 Lovejoy Methodist Episcopal Church and later funeral home.
Museum / Historical Site

Iron Island Museum

Buffalo, NY

Built in 1883 as a Methodist Episcopal church in the Lovejoy section of Buffalo, the building served the iron-working immigrant community surrounded by railroad tracks (the 'Iron Island'). The church closed in the late 1940s, the building was converted into a funeral home in 1956, and in August 2000 it was donated to the Iron Island Preservation Society for use as a neighborhood history museum.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Exterior of The Mansion on Delaware Avenue in Buffalo, New York, the 1869 Second Empire Sternberg House now operating as a luxury hotel.
Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Mansion on Delaware Avenue (Sternberg House)

Buffalo, NY

Commissioned 1869 by Buffalo grain-elevator owner Charles F. Sternberg and designed by George M. Allison in Second Empire style at a cost of $200,000, the mansion was later expanded by Samuel Curtis Trubee into a 100-room hotel. After lives as Victor Hugo Wine Cellar and other uses, the property stood vacant for 25 years until a $3 million restoration reopened it in 2001 as the Mansion on Delaware Avenue.

$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Marquee and ornate facade of Shea's Buffalo Theatre on Main Street in downtown Buffalo, a 1926 Rapp and Rapp movie palace
Theater / Performance Venue

Shea's Buffalo Theatre

Buffalo, NY

Shea's Buffalo opened January 16, 1926 as a 'Wonder Theatre' movie palace designed by Rapp and Rapp for impresario Michael Shea. Saved from demolition in the 1970s by community fundraising, it was restored and reopened as a performing arts center; today it is Buffalo's flagship Broadway-tour venue.

$$ All Ages Family: High
The eighteen-story 1923 Statler Hotel (Statler Towers) on Delaware Avenue and Niagara Square in downtown Buffalo, New York
Haunted Hotel / Inn

Statler Hotel (Statler City)

Buffalo, NY

Designed by George B. Post & Sons and opened in 1923 as the flagship of Ellsworth M. Statler's national hotel chain, the eighteen-story English Renaissance Revival hotel introduced amenities including private bathrooms, radios and circulating ice water to every guest room. After decades of operation the hotel closed in the 1980s, was largely vacant, and was acquired in 2010 by developer Mark Croce for restoration as the Statler City event venue.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Town Ballroom exterior on Main Street in Buffalo's Theater District, showing the venue's marquee and updated facade
Haunted Dining / Bar

Town Ballroom (former Town Casino)

Buffalo, NY

The Main Street site originally housed a Prohibition-era speakeasy known as the Town Barn; it reopened as the Town Casino in 1945, hosting Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Connie Francis and Louis Armstrong through the late 1940s and 1950s. After years as a bingo hall and other uses, the building was renovated and reopened as the Town Ballroom live-music venue in 2004.

$$ 18+ Family: Low

Rochester — 10

Wooded entrance and arboretum sign at Durand Eastman Park, the 965-acre Olmsted-influenced park on Rochester, New York's Lake Ontario shore
Outdoor / Natural Site

Durand Eastman Park

Rochester, NY

Durand Eastman Park is a major Monroe County public park on Lake Ontario in Rochester, New York, founded in 1907 from farmland purchased by Dr. Henry S. Durand and George Eastman. The park includes the stone ruins of an early-twentieth-century refectory popularly known as the White Lady's Castle.

$ All Ages Family: High
The Little Theatre historic Art Deco cinema marquee at night, Rochester, New York
Theater / Performance Venue

The Little Theatre

Rochester, NY

The Little Theatre opened October 17, 1929, billed as 'The House of Silent Shadows' and debuting with the silent film Cyrano de Bergerac. The Art Deco building at 240 East Avenue in Rochester is recognized as the oldest continuously operating independent film theater in the United States. It has operated without interruption through the sound transition, the multiplex era, and the streaming era.

$ All Ages (varies by film) Family: High
Colonial Revival mansion exterior of the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, NY
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Museum / Historical Site

George Eastman Museum

Rochester, NY

Completed in 1905 as the 35,000-square-foot Colonial Revival mansion of Kodak founder George Eastman, the property opened to the public as the George Eastman House photography museum in 1949. The site was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966 and is the world's oldest photography museum.

$$ All Ages Family: High
Entrance and grounds of Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Rochester, NY
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Holy Sepulchre Cemetery

Rochester, NY

Holy Sepulchre Cemetery was founded in 1871 by Bishop Bernard J. McQuaid, the first bishop of the Diocese of Rochester, on a 110-acre tract along Lake Avenue. McQuaid consecrated the cemetery on September 10, 1871, in a ceremony that drew 10,000 people. The cemetery's charter was granted by New York State in 1872. Today it covers 332 acres.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Exterior of the 1916 Hose Company No. 22 firehouse, now Hose 22 Firehouse Grill
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Haunted Dining / Bar

Hose 22 Firehouse Grill

Rochester, NY

Built in 1916 as the Rochester Fire Department's Hose Company No. 22, the firehouse on Stutson Street was the 'crown jewel of Charlotte' until the department vacated it around 1962. It sat largely empty for nearly half a century before contractor Craig Ristuccia purchased and restored it; the restaurant opened in 2008-2009. It is included on the official Haunted History Trail of New York State.

$$ All Ages Family: High
Victorian-era monuments at Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, NY
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Mount Hope Cemetery

Rochester, NY

Founded in 1838, Mount Hope was the first municipal Victorian cemetery in the United States. The 196-acre landscape adjacent to the University of Rochester is the resting place of more than 350,000 people, including Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.

$ All Ages Family: High
Exterior of the former Masonic Temple of Rochester, now the West Herr Auditorium Theatre
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Theater / Performance Venue

West Herr Auditorium Theatre

Rochester, NY

Built between 1928 and 1930 as the Masonic Temple of Rochester, the building's 3,000-seat auditorium was sold to a private owner in 1989 and purchased by the Rochester Broadway Theatre League (RBTL) in 2004. RBTL acquired the adjoining Auditorium Center portion of the building in 2023.

$$$ All Ages Family: High
Beaux-Arts/Art Deco facade of the Rundel Memorial Library in Rochester, NY
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Museum / Historical Site

Rundel Memorial Library

Rochester, NY

The Rundel Memorial Building, designed by Gordon & Kaelber and constructed between 1933 and 1936, is the Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County. The Beaux-Arts/Art Deco building was constructed atop the Johnson & Seymour Mill Race on the Genesee River and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

$ All Ages Family: High
Rush Rhees Library tower at the University of Rochester
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Museum / Historical Site

Rush Rhees Library (University of Rochester)

Rochester, NY

Rush Rhees Library was dedicated in 1930 as the centerpiece of the University of Rochester's new River Campus. The Italianate-Neo-Romanesque building features a 186-foot central tower and remains the principal research library at the university.

$ All Ages Family: High
Exterior of the 1856 Bradstreet home, now Union Tavern in Rochester, NY
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Haunted Dining / Bar

Union Tavern

Rochester, NY

The current building was constructed in 1856 by Irondequoit town supervisor Capt. Samuel Waldo Bradstreet VI and his wife Lavinia. The Bradstreet home remained a private residence until the 1930s, then served sequentially as apartments, restaurants, and bars (including Hallie's Steak House and The Reunion Inn). It is now Union Tavern, listed on the Haunted History Trail of New York State. Local tradition holds that the property was a stop on the Underground Railroad and later operated as a Prohibition-era speakeasy.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Albany — 9

South profile of the Cherry Hill historic Van Rensselaer house in Albany, New York
Haunted House / Historic Home

Historic Cherry Hill

Albany, NY

Cherry Hill is a 1787 Georgian house built by Philip Van Rensselaer of Albany's largest landholding family. After five generations of family occupation, the home opened as a museum in 1964 and is operated today by the Historic Cherry Hill Association.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Colossal Corinthian colonnade fronting the 1912 New York State Education Building on Washington Avenue in Albany
Other Dark Tourism Site

New York State Education Building

Albany, NY

The New York State Education Building opened in 1912 in Albany as a Beaux-Arts state office building designed by Henry Hornbostel, distinguished by 36 Corinthian columns forming one of the longest colonnades in the world. It originally housed the New York State Museum, State Library, and State Education Department, and continues to serve as headquarters for the Education Department.

$ All Ages on public exterior; interior access during business hours with security Family: High
The Copper Crow restaurant exterior at 904 Broadway, Albany, in the historic Andrew Kirk Brewery building
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Haunted Dining / Bar

The Copper Crow (Andrew Kirk Brewery)

Albany, NY

The Copper Crow is a craft cocktail bar and restaurant that opened in 2021 inside the 1832 Andrew Kirk & Son's Brewery building at 904 Broadway in Albany's historic North End warehouse district. Andrew Kirk, the son of a Scottish immigrant, was a leading figure in 19th-century Albany brewing.

$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Entrance to Graceland Cemetery on Delaware Avenue, Albany, NY
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Graceland Cemetery (Albany)

Albany, NY

Graceland Cemetery opened in May 1902 as a nonsectarian 228-acre cemetery on the banks of the Normanskill in Albany, NY. It was designed by Garnet Douglass Baltimore (1859-1946), the first African American to graduate from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and one of the leading landscape engineers of the Hudson Valley.

$ All Ages Family: High
Exterior of the New York State Capitol in Albany, completed 1899
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Museum / Historical Site

New York State Capitol

Albany, NY

The New York State Capitol in Albany was completed in 1899 after 32 years of construction by a succession of architects including Thomas Fuller, H.H. Richardson, and Isaac Perry. It is one of the few U.S. state capitols built without an exterior dome. On March 29, 1911, a catastrophic fire that originated in the third-floor Assembly Library destroyed much of the State Library and gutted the upper floors, claiming the life of 78-year-old night watchman Samuel J. Abbott — the only person to die in the blaze.

$ All Ages Family: High
Exterior of the historic Quackenbush House at 683 Broadway in Albany, now home to the Olde English Pub
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Haunted Dining / Bar

The Olde English Pub (Quackenbush House)

Albany, NY

The Quackenbush House at 683 Broadway is the second-oldest building in Albany, with the front section dating to approximately 1736 and the rear to the late 18th century. It is named for the Dutch Quackenbush family, who owned the home for over a century before vacating in 1864. Since then it has served as an antique store, boarding house, and tavern; the Olde English Pub has occupied the space since 2010 as part of the redeveloped Quackenbush Square.

$$ All Ages (full restaurant); 21+ at the bar after dinner hours Family: High
Exterior of the 1761-1765 Schuyler Mansion in Albany, a brick Georgian National Historic Landmark
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Haunted House / Historic Home

Schuyler Mansion State Historic Site

Albany, NY

The Schuyler Mansion is a 1761-1765 brick Georgian mansion built for Major General Philip Schuyler — Continental Army general, U.S. Senator, and father of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton. The home hosted notable Revolutionary-era visitors and was the site of the 1780 wedding of Eliza and Alexander Hamilton. It is a designated National Historic Landmark and is operated as a museum by New York State Parks. Historical interpretation now includes the lives of the enslaved people Philip Schuyler held in bondage.

$ All Ages Family: High
Exterior of the 1797-98 Ten Broeck Mansion in Albany, a Federal-style brick house designed by Philip Hooker
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Museum / Historical Site

Ten Broeck Mansion

Albany, NY

The Ten Broeck Mansion is a Federal-style brick house built in 1797-98 for Major General Abraham Ten Broeck and his wife Elizabeth Van Rensselaer, designed by Albany architect Philip Hooker. Ten Broeck commanded New York militia at the Battle of Saratoga and later served as mayor of Albany. In 1848 the home was purchased by banker and philanthropist Thomas Worth Olcott, whose family modified it with Greek Revival details. The Olcott family donated the property to the Albany County Historical Association in 1948; it has operated as a museum since.

$ All Ages Family: High
Washington Park lake and tree-lined paths in central Albany, NY
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Washington Park (former State Street Burying Ground)

Albany, NY

Washington Park is an 81-acre Olmsted-tradition urban park in central Albany that was developed beginning in the 1870s. The site previously held the State Street Burying Ground, established in 1800 and closed by law in 1867. In 1868 the City of Albany disinterred the cemetery and moved remains to Albany Rural Cemetery before laying out the park.

$ All Ages Family: High

Staten Island — 9

View north from Gate 3 of Baron Hirsch Cemetery in Graniteville, Staten Island, New York — a historic Jewish cemetery.
Cemetery / Burial Ground

Baron Hirsch Cemetery

Staten Island, NY

Baron Hirsch Cemetery was established in 1899 by an association of Jewish men in New York and named for philanthropist Baron Maurice de Hirsch. Located in the Graniteville neighborhood of Staten Island, the 65-acre cemetery is the final resting place of approximately 65,000 individuals. The cemetery is organized into approximately 500 plots belonging to various synagogues, Jewish associations, and family groups.

$ All ages Family: High
Exterior view of the historic Billop House (Conference House), a pre-1680 fieldstone manor in Tottenville, Staten Island, photographed for HABS.
Haunted House / Historic Home

Billop House

Staten Island, NY

The Billop House, also known as the Conference House, was built by Royal Navy Officer Christopher Billopp around 1680 and served as the site of the 1776 Staten Island Peace Conference between British Commander William Howe and Colonial representatives including Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Edward Rutledge. The historical significance of this failed peace negotiation shaped the trajectory of the American Revolutionary War.

$ All ages Family: High
Red sandstone fortification of Battery Weed at the entrance to New York Harbor under the Verrazzano Bridge
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Battlefield / Military Site

Fort Wadsworth

Staten Island, NY

Fort Wadsworth occupies the Staten Island side of the Narrows, the natural choke point at the entrance to New York Bay. The site has held continuous military fortification since 1655, beginning with a Dutch blockhouse on Signal Hill. The current Battery Weed and Fort Tompkins date from federal rebuilding completed in the mid-19th century. Decommissioned in 1994, the fort is now part of the Gateway National Recreation Area.

$ All Ages Family: High
Exterior of the 1832 Old Bermuda Inn on Veterans Road West in Staten Island, New York
Haunted Dining / Bar

Old Bermuda Inn

Staten Island, NY

The Mesereau family built the house at 301 Veterans Road West on Staten Island in 1832. After passing through various uses, it now operates as a bed and breakfast, restaurant, bar, and event venue. The building retains much of its nineteenth-century residential character, including an oil portrait of Martha Mesereau that still shows singe marks from an unexplained fire during renovations.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Ruins of the historic Sea View Hospital tuberculosis complex on Staten Island, New York, a 1913 city sanatorium now partially abandoned
Asylum / Hospital

Sea View Hospital (Old)

Staten Island, NY

Sea View Hospital opened in 1913 on Staten Island as the largest and most expensive municipal tuberculosis sanatorium in the United States. Built on the former 25-acre hilltop estate of Charles Schmidt, the campus eventually held 37 buildings constructed between 1905 and 1938. Streptomycin trials at Sea View in 1952 produced one of the foundational breakthroughs in tuberculosis treatment.

$ All Ages (perimeter only) Family: Moderate
Temple Row Greek Revival buildings at Sailors Snug Harbor on Staten Island New York
Museum / Historical Site

Sailors' Snug Harbor

Staten Island, NY

Sailors' Snug Harbor opened on Staten Island in 1831 as one of the first retirement homes in the United States, funded by the 1801 bequest of Revolutionary War mariner Captain Robert Richard Randall. The 83-acre campus grew to fifty buildings and 900 residents at its peak, and now operates as Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden.

$ All Ages Family: High
The Parsonage at Historic Richmond Town on Staten Island, the 1855 Carpenter Gothic building once home to a restaurant, photographed at the living-history village
Haunted Dining / Bar

The Parsonage at Historic Richmond Town

Staten Island, NY

The Parsonage at Historic Richmond Town is an 1855 Carpenter Gothic building constructed as the home for the pastor of the local Dutch Reformed Church. It served as the Parsonage Restaurant between 1995 and 2008 and is one of the historic structures at the Historic Richmond Town living-history village operated by the Staten Island Historical Society.

$ All Ages Family: High
Sandy beach at Wolfe's Pond Park on Raritan Bay, Staten Island, New York
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Wolfe's Pond Park

Staten Island, NY

Wolfe's Pond Park is one of Staten Island's largest parks, operated by NYC Parks. It encompasses a freshwater pond, the southernmost and least crowded public beach in New York City on Raritan Bay, and a wildlife and plant preserve. The park draws visitors for swimming, walking, birdwatching, and access to the pebble-strewn Raritan Bay shoreline.

$ All Ages Family: High
c.1680 fieldstone manor of the Conference House (Billopp House) at the southernmost tip of Staten Island.
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Museum / Historical Site

Conference House (Billopp House)

Staten Island, NY

The Conference House (also called Billopp House) is a two-story fieldstone manor built circa 1680 by Captain Christopher Billopp, a Royal Navy officer granted the 932-acre Manor of Bentley in 1676. On September 11, 1776, the house was the site of an unsuccessful peace conference between Lord Admiral Richard Howe and American delegates Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Edward Rutledge. The house was deeded to the City of New York in 1926 and operates as a historic-house museum within Conference House Park.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Saratoga Springs — 5

Batcheller Mansion — 1873 High Victorian Gothic mansion with conical minaret-style tower at 20 Circular Street, Saratoga Springs, New York
Haunted Hotel / Inn

Batcheller Mansion Inn

Saratoga Springs, NY

The Batcheller Mansion was built in 1873 at a cost of $100,000 as the home of George Sherman Batcheller, a Civil War officer, New York State Assemblyman, judge, U.S. diplomat to Egypt, and President of the Universal Postal Congress. The High Victorian Gothic design featured eleven bedrooms, steam-vapor furnaces, and gas illumination throughout. The mansion was sold out of the Batcheller family in 1916 and now operates as a boutique bed-and-breakfast.

$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Canfield Casino main building and east wing in Congress Park, Saratoga Springs, New York — the 1870 Italianate Saratoga Club House
Museum / Historical Site

Canfield Casino

Saratoga Springs, NY

The Canfield Casino was built in 1870 by prizefighter-turned-entrepreneur John 'Old Smoke' Morrissey as the Saratoga Club House and operated as one of the most exclusive gambling halls in 19th-century America until reformers ended gambling in 1907. Richard Canfield bought the property in 1894, sold it to the City of Saratoga Springs in 1911, and the building has housed the Saratoga Springs History Museum since 1911.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Olde Bryan Inn in Saratoga Springs, New York — a Federal-style 1826 stone building serving as a historic restaurant and tavern at 123 Maple Avenue
Haunted Dining / Bar

Olde Bryan Inn

Saratoga Springs, NY

The site at 123 Maple Avenue has been occupied since 1773, when Dirck Schoughten built a crude log cabin overlooking High Rock Spring. Revolutionary intelligence agent Alexander Bryan purchased the property in 1787; his son John Bryan built the current stone house on the site of his father's tavern in 1825. The building served as a private residence and laundry before being restored as a restaurant in 1979.

$$ All Ages Family: High
The Parting Glass — Irish pub on Lake Avenue in Saratoga Springs, NY
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Haunted Dining / Bar

The Parting Glass

Saratoga Springs, NY

The Parting Glass opened on St. Patrick's Day 1981 in a 1926 building that had previously housed Rocco's Royal Spring Grill, Lou Rocco's Italian restaurant. The tiger-oak front bar was built in 1936 by Frank K. Spalt, with a partition that originally separated a men's bar side from a ladies' entrance. The Parting Glass is said to be the oldest continuously running bar and restaurant in Saratoga Springs.

$$ 21+ Family: Low
Adelphi Hotel facade in Saratoga Springs New York, 1877 Gilded Age Broadway hotel
Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Adelphi Hotel

Saratoga Springs, NY

The Adelphi Hotel opened in 1877 in Saratoga Springs and quickly became a hub of Gilded Age society, hosting politicians, racing figures, and business leaders during the spa city's peak. The 123-room property underwent a multi-year preservation renovation completed in 2018.

$$$$ All Ages Family: High

Lake George — 3

Reconstructed log-and-stone exterior of Fort William Henry at Lake George, New York
Museum / Historical Site

Fort William Henry Museum

Lake George, NY

Fort William Henry was a British garrison built in 1755 at the southern end of Lake George during the French and Indian War. After a six-day French siege in August 1757, the surrendering British column was attacked by allied Native warriors during their withdrawal — an event later dramatized in James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans. The current museum is a 1950s reconstruction on the original site.

$$ All Ages Family: High
Side view of the reconstructed Fort William Henry at Lake George, New York, a 1950s replica of the 1755 British fort
Museum / Historical Site

Fort William Henry Museum

Lake George, NY

Fort William Henry was a British fort built in 1755 at the southern end of Lake George during the French and Indian War. A French and allied Native force of approximately 10,000 besieged the fort in August 1757, forcing surrender on August 10. The post-surrender violence inflicted on the British column by Native combatants became the historical core of James Fenimore Cooper's 1826 novel The Last of the Mohicans. The fort was reconstructed in the 1950s and operates today as a museum.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Open Graph image from dec.ny.gov
Outdoor / Natural Site

Long Island Campground

Lake George, NY

Long Island is a 100-acre New York State campsite in the southern basin of Lake George, near the hamlet of Diamond Point in Warren County. The New York State Forest Commission, predecessor to the Department of Environmental Conservation, assumed management of Lake George forest preserve lands in 1885. The island's campsite infrastructure was developed during the late 1930s and 1940s with support from the Civilian Conservation Corps.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Amityville — 2

Dutch Colonial house at the former 112 Ocean Avenue (now 108) in Amityville, New York, site of the 1974 DeFeo murders
Haunted House / Historic Home

Amityville Horror House (112 Ocean Avenue)

Amityville, NY

The address 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville, was the original number of the Dutch Colonial home where the DeFeo family was murdered on November 13, 1974, and where the Lutz family briefly lived in late 1975 and early 1976. The street address was renumbered to 108 Ocean Avenue in 1977 after the publication of Jay Anson's The Amityville Horror brought sustained tourist traffic to the property. The house itself was not relocated.

$ View from public street only — private residence Family: Low
Dutch Colonial house at 108 Ocean Avenue (originally 112) in Amityville, New York, site of the 1974 DeFeo murders and the Amityville Horror story
Haunted House / Historic Home

Amityville Horror House

Amityville, NY

On November 13, 1974, Ronald DeFeo Jr. shot and killed his parents and four siblings as they slept in the Dutch Colonial home at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York. The Lutz family purchased the property in December 1975 and departed after 28 days, generating the claims that became Jay Anson's 1977 book The Amityville Horror and a long-running film franchise.

$ View from public street only — private residence Family: Low

Binghamton — 2

The 1870 Second Empire brick and stone Phelps Mansion Museum on Court Street in Binghamton, New York
Haunted House / Historic Home

Phelps Mansion Museum

Binghamton, NY

The Phelps Mansion Museum is an 1870 Second Empire residence in Binghamton, New York, designed by architect Isaac G. Perry for banker and former mayor Sherman D. Phelps. It is the last surviving mansion on Court Street's Gilded Age "Mansion Row" and operates today as a historic house museum.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Italian Renaissance Alonzo Roberson House at 30 Front Street in Binghamton, New York
Museum / Historical Site

Roberson Museum and Science Center

Binghamton, NY

The Roberson Mansion was designed in 1904 by Binghamton architect C. Edward Vosbury for lumber magnate Alonzo Roberson Jr. and completed in 1907. After Roberson's widow Margaret died, the Roberson Memorial Center opened to the public in 1954 and has since grown into the Roberson Museum and Science Center.

$ All Ages Family: High

Eagle Bay — 2

Big Moose Inn (now Big Moose Lakeside) on Big Moose Lake in Eagle Bay New York, the 1903 Adirondack lodge with 16 rooms
True Crime Site

Big Moose Inn

Eagle Bay, NY

Big Moose Inn is a historic Adirondack lodge built in 1903, located on the shores of Big Moose Lake near Old Forge, New York. The property gained notoriety as the setting of one of upstate New York's most sensational murder cases: the July 1906 killing of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette, which inspired Theodore Dreiser's 1925 novel An American Tragedy.

$$ All ages, though history is adult-appropriate Family: Moderate
Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks of Herkimer County New York with reflective water and tree-lined shore
Outdoor / Natural Site

Big Moose Lake

Eagle Bay, NY

Big Moose Lake in the central Adirondacks is the site of one of New York's most infamous murders. On July 11, 1906, Chester Gillette murdered his pregnant girlfriend Grace Brown on the lake, causing a crime that captured national attention, inspired Theodore Dreiser's 1925 novel An American Tragedy, and contributed to the psychological landscape of early 20th-century American letters.

$ All ages Family: Moderate

East Bethany — 2

Brick exterior of Rolling Hills Asylum, the former Genesee County Home and Infirmary in East Bethany, New York
Asylum / Hospital

Rolling Hills Asylum (Genesee County Home and Infirmary)

East Bethany, NY

Rolling Hills Asylum opened in 1827 as the Genesee County Poorhouse on a 200-acre farm in East Bethany, New York. The institution operated for 147 years, becoming the Genesee County Infirmary in 1938 and the Genesee County Nursing Home in 1964 before closing in 1974. More than 1,700 deaths are documented on the property. The building reopened in 1992 and now operates as a documented paranormal-tourism site on the Haunted History Trail of New York State.

$$ All Ages for daytime tours; ghost-hunt experiences typically 18+ Family: Low
Rolling Hills Asylum in East Bethany New York, former Genesee County Poorhouse exterior
Asylum / Hospital

Rolling Hills Asylum

East Bethany, NY

The Genesee County Board of Supervisors established the county's poorhouse in East Bethany on December 4, 1826, and it opened in a converted stagecoach tavern in January 1827. For nearly 150 years, the facility housed orphaned children, the elderly, the physically disabled, the mentally ill, and those convicted of vagrancy. The 200-acre working farm required able-bodied residents to contribute labor. Operations cost approximately $1.08 per resident per week by 1871. The poor farm closed in 1965; the nursing home facility closed in 1974.

$$ 18+ with valid ID; 14-17 require parental accompaniment Family: Not Recommended

Geneva — 2

Belhurst Castle — Romanesque Revival sandstone mansion on Seneca Lake in Geneva, New York
Haunted Hotel / Inn

Belhurst Castle

Geneva, NY

Belhurst Castle is a Romanesque Revival mansion on the western shore of Seneca Lake, designed by the Albany firm Fuller & Wheeler and built between 1885 and 1889 for Carrie Harron Collins. The property became the Belhurst Hotel in 1932 and is now a member of the Haunted History Trail of New York State, operating as a hotel, restaurant, and winery.

$$$ All Ages (hotel and winery); some restaurant areas may have minimum age in evening Family: High
Open Graph image from www.hws.edu
Museum / Historical Site

Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Geneva, NY

Hobart and William Smith Colleges trace their origins to Geneva Academy, founded in 1796 on the western shore of Seneca Lake. Renamed Hobart College in 1852 to honor Bishop John Henry Hobart, the institution later incorporated William Smith College in 1908 as a coordinated women's college. Its affiliated Geneva Medical College made history in 1849 when Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to earn a medical degree in the Northern Hemisphere.

$ All Ages Family: High

New York City — 2

Facade of the historic New Amsterdam Theatre on 42nd Street in Manhattan, New York City
Theater / Performance Venue

New Amsterdam Theatre

New York City, NY

The New Amsterdam Theatre at 214 West 42nd Street opened on October 26, 1903, designed by architects Henry Herts and Hugh Tallant in an exuberant Art Nouveau style immediately dubbed 'The House Beautiful.' From 1913 to 1927 it served as the home of Florenz Ziegfeld's Follies. After decades as a movie theater and subsequent abandonment, The Walt Disney Company undertook a $34 million restoration beginning in 1995, reopening the theater in 1997.

$$$ All Ages Family: High
Exterior of NYU Brittany Hall at 55 East 10th Street, a 1929 Gothic Revival apartment hotel across from Grace Church in Greenwich Village
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Other Dark Tourism Site

NYU Brittany Residence Hall

New York City, NY

Brittany Hall at 55 East 10th Street was built in 1929 as a luxury apartment hotel, designed by Farrar & Watmough in a Gothic Revival style that mirrors the adjacent Grace Church. The building became an NYU residence hall and has housed notable alumni including Al Pacino, Jerry Garcia, and Adam Sandler.

$ All Ages Family: High

Oswego — 2

Earthwork ramparts of Fort Ontario overlooking Lake Ontario in Oswego, New York
Museum / Historical Site

Fort Ontario State Historic Site

Oswego, NY

Fort Ontario stands above Lake Ontario at the mouth of the Oswego River, a star-shaped earthwork first built by the British in 1755 during the French and Indian War. The fort served through the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Civil War, and both world wars. It now operates as a New York State Historic Site.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Disused rail bed running along Lake Ontario behind Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Railroad Tracks Behind Fort Ontario

Oswego, NY

Fort Ontario, built in 1755 in present-day Oswego, New York, played roles in the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and both World Wars. The disused rail line that ran along the shore between the fort and Lake Ontario served the city's industrial waterfront before declining with the rest of Oswego's port economy.

$ All Ages Family: High

Palmyra — 2

Historic brick commercial streetscape in the East Main Street Historic District of Palmyra, New York
Museum / Historical Site

Historic Palmyra

Palmyra, NY

The William Phelps General Store at 132 Market Street in Palmyra, New York was built in 1826, serving multiple functions as a boarding house, tavern, bakery, and general store. William Phelps purchased the building in November 1868 and completed renovations by 1875. His son Julius locked the doors in 1940, creating an intact 19th-century commercial time capsule. The last Phelps family member, Sibyl, lived in the house without electricity or indoor plumbing until her death in 1976.

$$ All ages for ghost tours; investigation events by arrangement Family: Moderate
The three-story brick Wm. Phelps General Store on Market Street in Palmyra, New York, with green window shutters and a decorative wrought-iron balcony
Museum / Historical Site

Wm. Phelps General Store and Home

Palmyra, NY

The Wm. Phelps General Store and family residence in Palmyra, New York was built in 1826 and operated as a general store, boarding house, tavern, and bakery in the busy Erie Canal era. William Phelps renovated the property in 1875, and the family ran the store until 1940, when Julius Phelps closed it abruptly. Sibyl Phelps lived in the home until her death in 1976.

$ All Ages Family: High

Stony Brook — 2

Exterior of the 1710 Country House Restaurant colonial building in Stony Brook, New York, with a holiday red bow on the door
Haunted Dining / Bar

Country House Restaurant

Stony Brook, NY

Built around 1710, the Country House Restaurant in Stony Brook is one of Long Island's oldest surviving domestic structures. The building served as a private residence and farm before British troops occupied it during the Revolutionary War. Over its three centuries of use it has housed a tavern, a private home, and its current incarnation as a full-service restaurant.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate
The 1751 Stony Brook Grist Mill on Harbor Road, a wooden working colonial gristmill in Stony Brook on the north shore of Long Island, New York.
Museum / Historical Site

Stony Brook Grist Mill

Stony Brook, NY

The Stony Brook Grist Mill occupies a site that has hosted a functioning mill since approximately 1700. The original structure was destroyed in a storm around 1750, and the replacement mill built on the same footprint remains standing today. It is maintained by the Ward Melville Heritage Organization and operates as a working mill during Sunday tours from April through October.

$ All Ages Family: High

Syracuse — 2

Exterior of Loew's State Theatre (now the Landmark Theatre) at 362 South Salina Street in downtown Syracuse, New York, on a snowy December afternoon
Theater / Performance Venue

Landmark Theatre

Syracuse, NY

The Landmark Theatre opened in February 1928 as Loew's State Theatre, a 2,908-seat Indo-Persian fantasy movie palace designed by Thomas W. Lamb. Built at a reported cost of $1.5 million by Marcus Loew's theatre chain, it was advertised at its debut as 'the last word in theatrical ornateness and luxuriousness.' After narrowly escaping demolition in 1977, it was rescued by community activists and now operates as a regional live-performance venue.

$$ All Ages Family: High
1909 postcard view of the entrance and Victorian monuments at Oakwood Cemetery in Syracuse, New York
Cemetery / Burial Ground

Oakwood Cemetery

Syracuse, NY

Oakwood Cemetery was dedicated in November 1859 and designed by Howard Daniels, a New York City landscape gardener whose picturesque plan made Oakwood one of the most notable examples of the American rural cemetery movement. Adjacent to what would become Syracuse University, the 160-acre cemetery is the last of Daniels' fifteen rural cemetery designs and remains an active burial ground today.

$ All Ages Family: High

Warwick — 2

Exterior buildings of the former Mid Orange Correctional Facility in Warwick, New York
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Prison / Reformatory

Mid Orange Correctional Facility

Warwick, NY

The Mid Orange Correctional Facility in Warwick, New York opened in 1932 as the New York State Training School for Boys, prior to which the site served as America's first inpatient substance abuse treatment center. The facility was converted to a medium-security adult prison in 1977 and closed in 2011 alongside six other state prisons. The property was acquired by the Town of Warwick in 2014 and became the Hudson Sports Complex in 2019.

$$ 18+ (16+ with responsible adult) Family: Not Recommended
Four-story brick and terra-cotta Demarest Building on Railroad Avenue in Warwick, New York
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Haunted Dining / Bar

Demarest Building (Former National Hotel)

Warwick, NY

The Demarest Building stands on Railroad Avenue in the Village of Warwick, New York. The earlier National Hotel was built on the site in 1863 to serve travelers arriving on the newly completed Warwick Valley Railroad. The current four-story brick and terra-cotta Demarest House was erected on the site in 1887.

$ All Ages Family: High

Alexandria Bay — 1

Boldt Castle six-story stone mansion on Heart Island in the Thousand Islands of New York
Museum / Historical Site

Boldt Castle

Alexandria Bay, NY

Boldt Castle is an unfinished six-story stone mansion on Heart Island in the Thousand Islands region of upstate New York. Hotelier George Boldt commissioned it in 1900 as a gift to his wife Louise. When Louise died unexpectedly in January 1904, Boldt halted construction by telegraph and never returned. The structure stood abandoned until the Thousand Islands Bridge Authority purchased it in 1977 and began ongoing restoration.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Amsterdam — 1

Widow Susan Road and its Legends & Lore historical marker near the cemeteries in Amsterdam, New York
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Widow Susan Road

Amsterdam, NY

Widow Susan Road in the Town of Amsterdam, Montgomery County, is named for Susan DeGraff, a Scottish immigrant who married Harmanus DeGraff in 1838 and was widowed around 1848. She raised her children and ran the family farm at the foot of the road, later moving to Michigan, where she died in 1892. She is buried in Green Hill Cemetery in Amsterdam.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Annandale-on-Hudson — 1

Blithewood Mansion at Bard College — 1900 Zabriskie family estate house in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Haunted House / Historic Home

Bard College

Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Blithewood Mansion was built in 1900 by National Guard captain and real estate developer Andrew C. Zabriskie as his family residence. One of his daughters fell to her death from a window in Zabriskie's New York City apartment under unclear circumstances. In 1951, the mansion was donated to Bard College, which uses it as a library facility. The estate's gardens still contain three statues of Zabriskie's daughters commissioned during his ownership, with a notably empty pedestal marking the fourth daughter.

$ All Ages (college campus) Family: Moderate

Aurora — 1

Aurora Inn at night in Aurora New York, 1833 historic Cayuga Lake village inn
Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Aurora Inn

Aurora, NY

The Aurora Inn was built in 1833 by Colonel Edwin B. Morgan, a co-founder of the New York Times and one of the village's founding entrepreneurs. The inn served stagecoach, Erie Canal, and rail travelers throughout the 19th century. After decades of decline, it was restored by the Aurora Foundation and reopened in May 2003 as part of the Inns of Aurora resort.

$$$$ All Ages Family: High

Baldwinsville — 1

Wooded, unlit stretch of Whiskey Hollow Road near Baldwinsville, New York
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Whiskey Hollow Road

Baldwinsville, NY

Whiskey Hollow Road is a roughly five-mile dirt road cutting through the woods of the town of Van Buren in western Onondaga County, near Baldwinsville. Notably, no homes or businesses sit along its length, and it is famously closed to traffic after dark, a fact that has helped fuel its reputation as one of Central New York's most storied 'haunted roads.'

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Ballston Spa — 1

Streetscape view of the village of Ballston Spa, New York, in Saratoga County, with historic downtown buildings.
Haunted House / Historic Home

Ballston Spa

Ballston Spa, NY

The Crandall House was constructed in the 1800s as a Victorian mansion for Sylvester Crandall, an unsuccessful stockbroker, and his wife Julia. On a winter night in 1887, Crandall murdered Julia's mother and stepdaughter with a shotgun, fatally shot his wife, and then walked to the cupola where he shot himself. The building now operates as an apartment complex.

$ All Ages Family: Low

Batavia — 1

North bank of Tonawanda Creek in Batavia, New York, site of the relocated Pioneer Cemetery
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Tonawanda Creekside North (Old Pioneer Cemetery Site)

Batavia, NY

Batavia's first burial ground, the West Main Street Cemetery, was established in 1806 beside Tonawanda Creek. Frequent flooding made the site untenable, and in 1823 burials were relocated to the new Batavia Cemetery on higher ground. Local tradition holds that not all remains were moved, and businesses now occupy the original creekside site.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Bayside — 1

The historic Civil War-era battery and buildings at Fort Totten Park in Bayside, Queens
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Battlefield / Military Site

Fort Totten

Bayside, NY

Fort Totten was begun in 1862 to defend the East River approach to New York Harbor, paired with Fort Schuyler across the water. Never finished as a masonry fort, it served various military roles for over a century and was named in 1898 for Brevet Major General Joseph Totten, a distinguished Army engineer. Much of the site is now a New York City park, with portions still used by the FDNY/EMS academy and the Army Reserve.

$ All Ages Family: High

Beacon — 1

Bannerman Castle ruins on Pollepel Island in Hudson River near Beacon New York
Outdoor / Natural Site

Bannerman Castle (Pollepel Island)

Beacon, NY

Pollepel Island is a 6.5-acre uninhabited island in the Hudson River about 50 miles north of New York City. Frank Bannerman VI, a Scotland-born munitions dealer, purchased it in 1900 and personally designed a complex of Scottish-baronial-style warehouses, walls, and outbuildings to store military surplus. An August 1969 fire of unknown origin destroyed the buildings. The Bannerman Castle Trust has stabilized the ruins; the island has been open for guided tours since 2004.

$$$ 12 and up for tours Family: Moderate

Brewster — 1

Narrow rural road through wooded terrain along Federal Hill Road in Brewster, New York
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Federal Hill Road

Brewster, NY

Federal Hill Road runs through the rural border between Brewster, New York, in Putnam County and Danbury, Connecticut, where it continues as Joe's Hill Road. The route's most notable landmark is Morefar Back O'Beyond, a private golf course associated with the American International Group corporate empire, designed by Edward Ryder and Val Carlson and opened in 1962.

$ All Ages (drive-by only) Family: Moderate

Broadalbin — 1

Historic Hotel Broadalbin building exterior on West Main Street in Broadalbin New York
Haunted Hotel / Inn

Broadalbin Hotel

Broadalbin, NY

The Historic Hotel Broadalbin is a restored 1854 establishment in Broadalbin, New York. Originally built as a glove factory, it became the Kennyetto Inn before operating as Dr. H.C. Finch's Keeley Cure Hospital (1895-1898), a controversial inebriate treatment facility. Renovated and reopened as a full-service hotel in July 2019, it features 12 guest rooms, a restaurant, and bar.

$ All ages Family: High

Bronx — 1

Edge of the Silver Beach Gardens bungalow community on the Throgs Neck peninsula
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Strawberry Fields of Silver Beach Gardens

Bronx, NY

Silver Beach Gardens is a private bungalow community at the southeastern edge of the Throgs Neck peninsula in the Bronx, overlooking the Long Island Sound. The 'strawberry fields' folklore attached to the inlet is community urban legend rather than documented history.

$ All Ages Family: Low

Brooklyn — 1

The Gothic Revival entrance gate of Green-Wood Cemetery on 25th Street in Brooklyn, New York
Cemetery / Burial Ground

Green-Wood Cemetery

Brooklyn, NY

Green-Wood Cemetery is a 478-acre rural-style cemetery in Brooklyn's Sunset Park, established in 1838 as one of the first rural cemeteries in the United States. Civic planner Henry Evelyn Pierrepont led a group of investors in purchasing 178 acres on the moraine ridge; the cemetery has since expanded to encompass roughly 600,000 burials, including Leonard Bernstein, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Boss Tweed, and sixteen Union generals. Green-Wood is a National Historic Landmark.

$ All Ages Family: High

Brunswick — 1

Overgrown, abandoned monuments at Forest Park / Pinewoods Cemetery in Brunswick, New York
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Forest Park Cemetery (Pinewoods Cemetery)

Brunswick, NY

Forest Park Cemetery, locally called Pinewoods Cemetery for its location on Pinewoods Avenue, is an abandoned cemetery in Brunswick, New York, just east of Troy. The Forest Park Cemetery Corporation incorporated it in 1897 on land used for burials since at least 1856, with grand ambitions to surpass Troy's Oakwood Cemetery. It was designed by Garnet Douglass Baltimore, the first African American graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

$ All Ages Family: Low

Burt — 1

Van Horn Mansion brick Colonial Revival historic home, Burt/Newfane, New York
Haunted House / Historic Home

Van Horn Mansion

Burt, NY

Judge James Van Horn built the mansion at 2159 Lockport-Olcott Road in Niagara County in 1823. The property passed through the Van Horn family and later the Noury Chemical Company before the latter donated it to the Newfane Historical Society in 1987. The Society has maintained and restored the four-story mansion, hosting Victorian teas, historical tours, and paranormal events. It is managed entirely by volunteers.

$ All Ages (under 18 must be accompanied by adult for evening tours) Family: Moderate

Camillus — 1

Skeletal concrete ruins of the Semet-Solvay rock crusher at Split Rock Quarry
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Split Rock Quarry

Camillus, NY

Split Rock Quarry, west of Syracuse, New York, was the site of a Semet-Solvay Company TNT plant that supplied roughly a quarter of the United States' explosives during World War I. On July 2, 1918, a fire in the main TNT building triggered explosions that killed approximately 50 workers and effectively ended the operation.

$ All Ages (parental judgment recommended) Family: Moderate

Carmel — 1

Exterior of the historic Smalley's Inn building in Carmel, New York
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Haunted Dining / Bar

Smalley's Inn & Restaurant

Carmel, NY

Smalley's Inn was a tavern, restaurant, and former hotel in Carmel, New York, founded in 1852 by James Smalley, who also served the town as sheriff, coroner, and treasurer. The building survived major fires in 1924 and 1974 and operated for over 160 years before closing in January 2020.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Chester — 1

A train passes parallel to the Orange Heritage Trail rail-trail in Chester, Orange County, New York
Outdoor / Natural Site

Orange Heritage Trail (Chester Section)

Chester, NY

The Orange Heritage Trail is a 19.5-mile rail-trail in Orange County, New York, running along the historic Erie Railroad Main Line from Harriman to Middletown. The Chester section passes through landscape settled by Europeans in the early 1700s, including small protected cemeteries.

$ All Ages Family: High

Clinton Corners — 1

Fiddlers Bridge Road and the Legends & Lore historical marker in the Town of Clinton, New York
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Fiddlers Bridge Road

Clinton Corners, NY

Fiddlers Bridge Road in the Town of Clinton, Dutchess County, takes its name from an early-19th-century legend. According to local tradition recorded by the Town of Clinton Historical Society, an old fiddler returning home from a dance on September 7, 1808 was robbed and murdered, his body left on a small bridge along the then-unnamed road connecting Pleasant Plains and Schultzville. The bridge no longer stands, but the road preserves his memory.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Cobleskill — 1

Exterior of the 1802 Bull's Head Inn at 105 Park Place in Cobleskill, New York
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Haunted Dining / Bar

Bull's Head Inn

Cobleskill, NY

The Bull's Head Inn building at 105 Park Place in Cobleskill is the oldest standing structure in the village, built in 1802. It has operated in various capacities for over two centuries — as a private residence, a tavern, and a restaurant. The building is currently open for lunch and dinner Tuesday through Sunday as a traditional American restaurant and pub.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Cohoes — 1

Cohoes Music Hall Second Empire brick facade in Cohoes New York
Theater / Performance Venue

Cohoes Music Hall

Cohoes, NY

Cohoes Music Hall opened November 23, 1874, built by businessmen William Acheson and James Masten at a cost of $60,000. The four-story building housed retail on the first floor and a 475-seat theater on the third and fourth floors. After the National Bank of Cohoes took over in 1905 and the hall sat unused for over 60 years, the city acquired the building for $1 in 1968 and invested more than a million dollars in restoration before reopening it on March 7, 1974.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Corfu — 1

A view of Indian Falls, as seen in January 2023 from the parking lot of the Indian Falls Log Cabin Restaurant in the town of Pembroke, New York (the only publicly accessible view of the falls from land). Locally renowned as a fishing spot, this 20-foot curtain cascade is located at the point where T
Outdoor / Natural Site

Indian Falls

Corfu, NY

Indian Falls is a 20-foot waterfall on Tonawanda Creek in Genesee County, New York, located in the hamlet of Indian Falls within the town of Pembroke. The region was home to the Seneca Tribe of the Iroquois Nation; Ely Samuel Parker, who became Ulysses S. Grant's Adjutant General during the Civil War and later Commissioner of Indian Affairs, was born here in 1828.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

East Aurora — 1

Roycroft Inn exterior in East Aurora New York, Arts and Crafts era hostelry
Haunted Hotel / Inn

Roycroft Inn

East Aurora, NY

Elbert Hubbard opened the Roycroft Inn in 1905 in East Aurora as a hostelry for visitors to his Arts and Crafts community. Hubbard had established the Roycroft campus in 1895 as a printing and craftsmanship collective inspired by William Morris's English Arts and Crafts movement. He died on May 7, 1915, aboard the RMS Lusitania. The Inn was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1986 and continues to operate as a hotel and restaurant.

$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Elbridge — 1

Exterior of the Wayside Irish Pub in Elbridge, New York, in the historic 1830 Munro Tavern building
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Haunted Dining / Bar

Wayside Irish Pub (Former Webber's Wayside Inn)

Elbridge, NY

The building has housed travelers since 1830, when Squire Munro built the Munro Hotel and Tavern on the Jordan-to-Skaneateles stagecoach route. Frederick Weber purchased and renovated the property in 1967 as Weber's Wayside Inn. The Wayside Irish Pub is the current operator.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Ellicottville — 1

Hencoop Hollow Road, Ellicottville, New York
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Other Dark Tourism Site

Hencoop Schoolhouse and Cemetery

Ellicottville, NY

Hencoop Hollow Road in Ellicottville, Cattaraugus County, was home to a one-room schoolhouse that served the rural farming community in the 19th century. Like many such structures across Western New York, the building was eventually decommissioned and converted into a private residence as school centralization took hold in the mid-20th century. A small community cemetery adjacent to the road dates to the 1850s.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Fairport — 1

Exterior of the Henry DeLand House / Green Lantern Inn, an 1876 Second Empire mansion in Fairport, New York
Museum / Historical Site

Green Lantern Inn (Henry DeLand House)

Fairport, NY

Built in 1876 by Fairport baking-soda industrialist Henry DeLand, the mansion at Main and Church Streets is one of western New York's largest surviving Second Empire residences. After DeLand lost his fortune in a Florida orange-grove freeze, the home passed through multiple uses before reopening as the Green Lantern Inn in 1925. It has since been rebranded as the DeLand House on Main.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Fire Island — 1

The 168-foot black-and-white-banded Fire Island Lighthouse tower rising above the barrier island dunes on Long Island, New York.
Museum / Historical Site

Fire Island Lighthouse

Fire Island, NY

Fire Island's first lighthouse, a 74-foot tower, was built in 1826 but proved inadequate for navigating the treacherous barrier island coastline. The current 168-foot stone tower entered service in 1858 and operated under U.S. Coast Guard management until 1974. The Fire Island Lighthouse Preservation Society formed in 1982 and raised over $1.2 million to restore the structure, which the Coast Guard returned to service as an active aid to navigation in 1986.

$ All Ages (tower requires 42" minimum height) Family: Moderate

Fort Covington — 1

Victorian mansion in Fort Covington, New York, known locally as Dunwich Manor
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Haunted House / Historic Home

The Dupree House (Dunwich Manor)

Fort Covington, NY

The Dupree House, also called Dunwich Manor, is a Victorian-era mansion in Fort Covington, New York, a hamlet on the Canadian border in Franklin County. It is best known as the former residence of occult writer Gerina Dunwich, who moved into the house in December 1993.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Frewsburg — 1

Gurnsey Hollow Cemetery in the woods near Frewsburg, New York, with old gravestones and a hilltop cross
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Gurnsey Hollow Cemetery

Frewsburg, NY

Gurnsey Hollow Cemetery is a small, remote burial ground near Frewsburg in Chautauqua County, with graves dating to the 19th century, including several children. Reached by dirt roads and forest paths, its isolation and old children's graves contribute to a long-standing reputation as one of New York State's most haunted sites — New York Makers magazine ranked it the state's second most haunted in 2017.

$ All Ages Family: Low

Garrison — 1

Historic Bird and Bottle Inn colonial stagecoach stop in Garrison New York
Haunted Hotel / Inn

Bird and Bottle Inn

Garrison, NY

The Bird and Bottle Inn originated as a stagecoach stop established in 1761 on the Old Albany Post Road in the Hudson Valley. The building was later reopened as an inn and restaurant in 1940, and continues to operate today as a boutique inn, restaurant, and event venue. The structure retains significant original Colonial architecture and fixtures from its centuries of operation.

$$ All ages for dining; overnight guests 18+ Family: High

Glen Haven — 1

Wooded cliffs above the south end of Skaneateles Lake at Glen Haven, New York
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Outdoor / Natural Site

The Screamer of Glen Haven

Glen Haven, NY

Glen Haven, at the south end of Skaneateles Lake, was the site of a famous 19th-century water-cure (hydropathic) sanitarium. The city of Syracuse bought the property in 1911 to protect its drinking-water supply and demolished the buildings; the wood was carried away by 1913. The area's haunted reputation grew among campers at nearby Lourdes Camp on Ten Mile Point.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Glenmont — 1

Hudson River frontage and picnic area at Henry Hudson Park in Glenmont New York
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Henry Hudson Park

Glenmont, NY

Henry Hudson Park is an 85-acre Town of Bethlehem park on the Hudson River, located off Route 144 in the Cedar Hill section of Glenmont, New York. The park includes boat launches, picnic facilities, and ball fields. It was expanded through partnerships with Scenic Hudson and the Mohawk Hudson Land Conservancy.

$ All Ages Family: High

Grand Island — 1

Whitehaven Cemetery on Grand Island, New York, established 1865
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Whitehaven Cemetery

Grand Island, NY

Whitehaven Cemetery in the Town of Grand Island, Erie County, was established in 1865 and is one of the island's oldest burial grounds. It lies near the area of the former Whitehaven settlement, a 19th-century logging community. The cemetery sits close to the present-day Holiday Inn, a site famous for its own well-documented ghost story rooted in an 1962 mansion fire.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Greene — 1

Exterior of the 1913 Sherwood Hotel in downtown Greene, NY
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Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Sherwood Hotel

Greene, NY

The Sherwood Hotel anchors downtown Greene, New York, on a site occupied by an inn since 1807, when stagecoach operator Isaac Sherwood built a tavern at the edge of a cedar swamp to headquarter his coaching business. After an early 20th-century fire, the present structure was rebuilt in 1913 and remains in continuous operation as a hotel, restaurant, and bar.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Greenport — 1

The Townsend Manor Inn at 714 Main Street in Greenport, an 1835 whaling-captain's residence on Long Island's North Fork
Haunted Hotel / Inn

Townsend Manor Inn

Greenport, NY

The Townsend Manor Inn occupies a residence built in 1835 by whaling captain George Cogswell on the Greenport waterfront. Cogswell left for the California Gold Rush in 1849. The widow of Joseph Lawrence Townsend, Lillian Cook Townsend, purchased the property in 1925, giving the inn its current name and connecting it to a Townsend family lineage that traces back to 1638 Salem.

$$$ All Ages Family: High

Highland — 1

Rural road near Chodikee Lake in Highland, Ulster County, New York, site of a phantom family legend
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Washington Cemetery, North Chodikee Lake Road

Highland, NY

Washington Cemetery near North Chodikee Lake Road in Highland, Ulster County, New York is a small, difficult-to-find 19th-century burial ground adjacent to farmland on a spade-shaped 100-acre lake whose name derives from an Algonkian phrase meaning 'the place of the signal fire.' The area's history spans Indigenous use by the Esopus, a circa-1800 religious commune led by Jemima Wilkinson's Pang Yang settlers, the early-20th-century Riordon all-boys academy, and 1940s bootlegging operations.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Hunter — 1

Devil's Kitchen gorge and waterfalls in the Indian Head Wilderness of the Catskills, New York
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Devil's Kitchen (Indian Head Wilderness)

Hunter, NY

Devil's Kitchen is a rugged gorge and campsite in the Platte Clove area of the Catskills, within the NYSDEC-managed Indian Head Wilderness in Greene County. The name comes from the turbulent, cauldron-like pools beneath the clove's waterfalls. During the 1800s the surrounding hills were dotted with bluestone quarries that supplied stone for New York City's sidewalks before cement replaced it.

$ All Ages Family: Low

Huntington — 1

West Hills County Park — Jayne's Hill and the wooded Mount Misery road area, Huntington, Long Island
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Outdoor / Natural Site

West Hills County Park (Mount Misery)

Huntington, NY

West Hills County Park covers 853 acres of forested hills in Huntington, New York, including Jayne's Hill, Long Island's highest natural point at 401 feet. The park is maintained by Suffolk County and incorporates Mount Misery Road, a winding rural road through the West Hills moraine area associated with extensive local folklore.

$ All Ages Family: High

Hyde Park — 1

Springwood, Franklin D. Roosevelt's home in Hyde Park New York, east facade exterior
Museum / Historical Site

Springwood (Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site)

Hyde Park, NY

Springwood, the lifelong home and burial site of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, is preserved as the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site in Hyde Park, New York. The estate was acquired by James Roosevelt in 1867, expanded by FDR in 1915 with architect Francis L. V. Hoppin, and donated to the federal government on FDR's death in 1945.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Jamestown — 1

The gravesite of James Prendergast (1764-1846) at Lakeview Cemetery in Jamestown, New York, as seen in April 2021. The son of an Irish-born immigrant and a native of Dutchess County, New York, Prendergast came to Chautauqua County in 1806 and built a sawmill and dam on the Chadakoin River, around wh
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Hollen Beck Cemetery

Jamestown, NY

Hollenbeck Cemetery is a small 19th-century family burial ground on Moon Road in the Town of Ellicott, Chautauqua County, NY, with roughly 25–35 burials of the Hollenbeck, Aldrich, Brown, Moon, and other early-settler families. The headstones were stolen in 1995 and replaced with a township memorial in 1996.

$ All Ages Family: Low

Keuka Park — 1

Open Graph image from www.keuka.edu
Other Dark Tourism Site

Keuka College — Ball Hall

Keuka Park, NY

Keuka College was founded in 1890 by Reverend George Harvey Ball in Keuka Park, New York, on the shore of Keuka Lake in the Finger Lakes region. Ball Hall, the original campus building, housed all student residences and classrooms when it opened. It was renamed for the founder in 1921 and underwent a major restoration in the late 2000s that earned a Citation Award from the American Institute of Architects.

$ All Ages Family: High

Lake Ronkonkoma — 1

Historic 1901 view of the North Beach at Lake Ronkonkoma, a kettle pond on Long Island, New York
Outdoor / Natural Site

Lake Ronkonkoma

Lake Ronkonkoma, NY

Lake Ronkonkoma is the largest freshwater lake on Long Island, a roughly 240-acre kettle pond at the geographic center of Suffolk County. Four towns meet at its shoreline. The lake's persistent local folklore concerns a Native American figure remembered as the Lady of the Lake, with a documented historical marker erected by the Pomeroy Foundation.

$ All Ages Family: High

Lancaster — 1

Lancaster Opera House and Town Hall, three-story 1896 Italianate brick building in Lancaster, New York
Theater / Performance Venue

Lancaster Opera House

Lancaster, NY

The Lancaster Opera House was built in 1897 in Lancaster, New York, designed by architect George J. Metzger as a combined town hall and music hall. After decades of use as a community anchor — including serving as a food distribution center during the Depression and a parachute-packing facility during World War II — it fell into disuse before a volunteer nonprofit reopened it on September 20, 1981.

$$ All Ages for performances; 18+ for ghost hunts Family: Moderate

Lily Dale — 1

Open Graph image from www.lilydaleassembly.org
Haunted Hotel / Inn

Maplewood Hotel

Lily Dale, NY

The Maplewood Hotel was built in 1880 as a converted horse barn in the heart of Lily Dale, New York — a Chautauqua County hamlet established in 1879 as a camp meeting ground for the American Spiritualist movement. Lily Dale Assembly is now the world's largest Spiritualist community, drawing thousands of visitors each summer for lectures, healing sessions, and demonstrations of mediumship.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Menands — 1

Victorian funerary monuments and rolling landscape at Albany Rural Cemetery in Menands
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Albany Rural Cemetery

Menands, NY

Albany Rural Cemetery was established October 7, 1844 in Menands, just north of Albany. Designed in the rural-cemetery movement landscape style, the 467-acre grounds were laid out by architect Daniel Bouton and are considered among the finest examples of the form in the country. The cemetery is the final resting place of more than 135,000 people, including President Chester A. Arthur. It is a designated National Historic Landmark.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Monroe — 1

The Federal-era McGarrah Stagecoach Inn in Monroe, New York, built around 1799
Museum / Historical Site

The McGarrah Stagecoach Tavern Inn

Monroe, NY

Built around 1799 by John McGarrah, the Stagecoach Tavern Inn is one of the oldest buildings in Monroe, New York. It operated as an inn for nearly a century, served as a Freemason meeting place from 1817 to 1826, and houses what the Cornerstone Masonic Historical Society describes as the oldest Masonic lodge room in New York State. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

$ All Ages Family: High

Napanoch — 1

Historic Shanley Hotel building on Main Street in Napanoch, New York
Haunted Hotel / Inn

Shanley Hotel

Napanoch, NY

The Shanley Hotel in Napanoch, New York traces its origins to 1845, when Thomas Ritch built a hotel on the site that housed an exclusive gentlemen's club. A fire destroyed the original structure in 1895, and the rebuilt hotel was purchased by Irish immigrant James Shanley in 1906. Shanley married Beatrice Rowley at the hotel in 1910, added a barn-like wing housing a barbershop and later a brothel's gentlemen's quarters, and concealed secret rooms and cellar tunnels during Prohibition to hide contraband from authorities.

$$ 18+ or 16 with responsible adult Family: Low

New Hartford — 1

Exterior of New Hartford Senior High School in New Hartford, New York, built over an 18th-century burial ground
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Other Dark Tourism Site

New Hartford Senior High School

New Hartford, NY

New Hartford Senior High School in Oneida County, New York sits on land that has included a burial ground since 1788. A 1952 addition was constructed on the cemetery space, with historical records indicating that not all remains were relocated prior to construction. In 2009, remains were discovered on the grounds during maintenance work.

$ All Ages Family: High

New Windsor — 1

The Plum Point on Hudson condominium community along the Hudson River in New Windsor, New York
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Haunted House / Historic Home

Plum Point on Hudson Condominiums

New Windsor, NY

Plum Point on Hudson is a private condominium community on the Hudson River shoreline in New Windsor, New York, with townhomes first built in 1978 and expanded in phases through the 1980s and 1990s. The condos occupy former estate grounds that were once home to a girls' home and orphanage. The adjacent Kowawese Unique Area (Plum Point Park) opened to the public in 1996.

$ No public access; private residential community Family: High

Newburgh — 1

The pond and reflections at Downing Park in Newburgh, New York, the last Olmsted and Vaux collaboration
Outdoor / Natural Site

Downing Park

Newburgh, NY

Downing Park is a 35-acre public park in Newburgh, New York, designed in 1889 by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux as a gift to the city, on the condition that it be named for their mentor Andrew Jackson Downing, the Newburgh-born landscape designer who died in 1852. The park opened in 1897 and was the last design collaboration between Olmsted and Vaux.

$ All Ages Family: High

Oneida — 1

Oneida Community Mansion House in Oneida New York, historic 1862 brick Victorian communal home
Haunted Hotel / Inn

Oneida Community Mansion House

Oneida, NY

The Oneida Community Mansion House in Oneida, New York, served as headquarters for the 19th-century utopian Oneida Community from 1848 to 1880. Built in stages between 1862 and 1914, the 93,000-square-foot National Historic Landmark sits on 33 acres and now operates as a museum and 14-room guesthouse adjacent to the city of Sherrill.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Oyster Bay — 1

The 1738 Raynham Hall Museum on West Main Street in Oyster Bay, New York, former home of the Townsend family
Museum / Historical Site

Raynham Hall

Oyster Bay, NY

Raynham Hall is a 20-room historic house museum in Oyster Bay, New York, owned by the Town of Oyster Bay and accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. The Townsend family home served as quarters for British officers during the Revolutionary War and figured in the Culper Spy Ring's interception of the Benedict Arnold plot.

$ All Ages Family: High

Ozone Park — 1

Weathered monuments at the historic Bayside Cemetery in Ozone Park, Queens
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Bayside Cemetery

Ozone Park, NY

Bayside Cemetery is a roughly 12-acre Jewish cemetery in Ozone Park, Queens, established in the mid-19th century with about 35,000 interments. Once a stately burial ground for New York's Jewish community, it suffered decades of neglect and vandalism in the mid-1900s before restoration efforts began in 2012.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Plattsburgh — 1

Grounds of the former Plattsburgh Air Force Base in Plattsburgh, New York
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Battlefield / Military Site

Former Plattsburgh Air Force Base (Old Gym)

Plattsburgh, NY

The land was part of the U.S. Army's Plattsburgh Barracks, near the 1814 Battle of Plattsburgh. It became Plattsburgh Air Force Base in 1953-54, served Strategic Air Command through the Cold War, and closed on September 30, 1995, under the 1993 BRAC round. The site has since been about 99% redeveloped for civilian use.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Poughkeepsie — 1

Exterior of Christ Episcopal Church in Poughkeepsie, New York, with its 1888 Gothic Revival tower
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Other Dark Tourism Site

Christ Episcopal Church

Poughkeepsie, NY

Christ Episcopal Church is an active Poughkeepsie parish whose congregation traces to 1773. The current brick Gothic Revival building, designed by architect William Appleton Potter, was completed in May 1888 on a site that had been the city's old English Burial Ground, whose graves were relocated to Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery.

$ All Ages Family: High

Raquette Lake — 1

Brightside Hotel abandoned structure
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Haunted Hotel / Inn

Brightside Hotel

Raquette Lake, NY

The Brightside Hotel was a prominent resort in the Adirondacks during the early 20th century. The hotel ceased business approximately twenty years ago (circa 2000s). The building remains standing but abandoned, with original furnishings preserved in situ.

$ All ages Family: Not Recommended

Rome — 1

Entrance drawbridge and reconstructed timber walls of Fort Stanwix National Monument in downtown Rome, New York.
Battlefield / Military Site

Fort Stanwix

Rome, NY

Fort Stanwix National Monument occupies 16 acres in downtown Rome, New York. The current structure is a 1970s full-scale reconstruction of the 1758 British fort that, under Continental command in August 1777, withstood a 21-day siege by British, Loyalist, and Iroquois forces during the Saratoga campaign.

$ All Ages Family: High

Roosevelt Island — 1

The Octagon Tower on Roosevelt Island — preserved Alexander Jackson Davis rotunda from the 1841 New York City Lunatic Asylum, now anchoring a luxury residential complex.
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Asylum / Hospital

The Octagon (former NYC Lunatic Asylum)

Roosevelt Island, NY

The Octagon is a five-story rotunda designed by Alexander Jackson Davis and built 1834-1839 in blue-gray stone quarried on what was then Blackwell's Island. It served as the main entrance and administrative center of the New York City Lunatic Asylum, opened in 1841, and was later part of Metropolitan Hospital. Conditions were documented by Charles Dickens (1842) and Nellie Bly (1887). After decades of abandonment the exterior was preserved when the site was redeveloped as the Octagon residential complex in 2006.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Roxbury — 1

John Burroughs Gravesite- overlooking Ford Lot (named in honor of Henry Ford- his friend and traveling companion
Cemetery / Burial Ground

John Burroughs Gravesite

Roxbury, NY

John Burroughs Memorial State Historic Site in Roxbury, New York marks the birthplace and burial ground of naturalist John Burroughs (1837–1921), whose 27 books of nature and philosophical essays shaped American conservation thought. Burroughs was interred at the foot of Boyhood Rock — a boulder he had played on as a child — on what would have been his 84th birthday.

$ All Ages Family: High

Sackets Harbor — 1

Madison Barracks historic military complex aerial view in Sackets Harbor, New York
Haunted Dining / Bar

Madison Barracks Pub

Sackets Harbor, NY

Madison Barracks in Sackets Harbor, New York was established in 1815 following the War of 1812, built to garrison 600 troops at one of the nation's key northern defense posts. Named for President James Madison, the limestone complex hosted notable figures including General Ulysses S. Grant, General Mark Clark, and General Henry 'Hap' Arnold, founder of the modern U.S. Air Force.

$ All Ages Family: High

Saint James — 1

Wooded residential road in Saint James, Long Island, associated with the Mary's Grave urban legend
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Mary's Grave (Long Island)

Saint James, NY

Mary's Grave is one of Long Island's longest-running urban legends, claimed across at least seven towns. The most concrete location cited in tradition is along Shep Jones Lane in Saint James in Smithtown's Head of the Harbor area, though no documented grave matches the lore.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Sauquoit — 1

Orchard Hall in Sauquoit New York, the 180-year-old historic tavern home to the ghost named Julia upstairs
Haunted Dining / Bar

Orchard Hall

Sauquoit, NY

Orchard Hall at 2955 Oneida Street in Sauquoit has operated as a community gathering place since 1843, cycling through uses as a homestead, hotel, and restaurant. The Puleo family owned and operated the restaurant for 33 years before retiring in October 2025; new ownership assumed operations under the same name. A Rome Sentinel feature documented the building's connection to local figures including a George Washington visit to the vicinity.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Schenectady — 1

Victorian monuments and wooded grounds at Historic Vale Cemetery in Schenectady, New York
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Vale Cemetery

Schenectady, NY

Historic Vale Cemetery in Schenectady, New York, was established in 1857 and covers roughly 100 acres along State Street. The first burial, in November 1857, was a four-year-old child, Noah Vibbard Van Vorst. Today the rural-movement cemetery holds more than 33,000 interments and includes the African American Ancestral Burying Ground. It is maintained by the nonprofit Vale Cemetery Association.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Sleepy Hollow — 1

Washington Irving family graveplot at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York, the historic Hudson Valley burying ground
Cemetery / Burial Ground

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

Sleepy Hollow, NY

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery was incorporated in 1849 as Tarrytown Cemetery and renamed in 1865. The 90-acre nonsectarian burying ground is the resting place of Washington Irving, who co-founded the cemetery, along with Andrew Carnegie, Walter Chrysler, and several generations of Hudson Valley families. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

$ All Ages Family: High

South Wales — 1

Nighttime view of Goodleburg Cemetery on Goodleburg Road near South Wales, New York
Cemetery / Burial Ground

Goodleburg Cemetery

South Wales, NY

Goodleburg Cemetery (correct spelling; the Shadowlands entry uses Gootleburg) is an inactive historic burial ground on Goodleburg Road in the Town of Wales, Erie County, New York. The cemetery was active from 1811 to 1927 and contains approximately 69 documented memorial records. Many of the original settlers of Wales and surrounding areas are buried here.

$ All Ages (daylight only) Family: Moderate

Strykersville — 1

Small rural cemetery on a wooded hilltop in Wyoming County, New York
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Goosehill Cemetery

Strykersville, NY

Goosehill Cemetery — also recorded as Goose Hill Cemetery or St. John's Cemetery — sits on the summit of Goose Hill in Wyoming County, New York, just west of the four corners where Dutch Hollow Road meets Centerline Road, north of Strykersville. The cemetery is associated with St. John's Evangelical & Reformed Church (now part of the United Church of Christ) and contains approximately 30 graves. Burials were regular from the first settlement of the surrounding area until about 1867, after which the ground was largely abandoned.

$ All Ages Family: Low

Tonawanda — 1

Signage along the Tonawanda Rail Trail near its intersection with Brighton Road, Tonawanda, New York, 13th January 2020.
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Elmlawn Memorial Park

Tonawanda, NY

Elmlawn Memorial Park in the Town of Tonawanda was established in 1901 as a not-for-profit cemetery serving the Buffalo metropolitan area. The 100-acre grounds now contain over 70,000 burials and mausoleum entombments. A church adjacent to the cemetery grounds has been the setting for a persistent local legend about a bride struck by a carriage on her wedding day.

$ All Ages Family: High

Troy — 1

The Victorian Gothic exterior of West Hall, the former Troy Hospital, on the RPI campus in Troy, New York
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Other Dark Tourism Site

West Hall (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

Troy, NY

West Hall, the oldest building on the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute campus in Troy, New York, was built in 1869 as Troy Hospital, operated by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul. In 1923 it became a Catholic high school, and in 1953 it was incorporated into RPI, where it now houses the school's arts and humanities programs.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Victor — 1

Boughton Hill Park woodland area in Victor, New York
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Boughton Hill Park

Victor, NY

Boughton Hill Park in Victor, New York sits on land with documented Colonial history. According to local tradition, a woman accused of witchcraft was buried just outside the park's northern boundary during the 17th century.

$ All ages Family: High

Wappingers Falls — 1

Maple sap collecting at Bowdoin Park in Dutchess County, New York.
Outdoor / Natural Site

Bowdoin Park / Old Haunted Mansion Site

Wappingers Falls, NY

Bowdoin Park in Wappingers Falls occupies Hudson River shoreline with a complex history. The property once included structures and facilities connected to military detention and prisoner-of-war treatment. The paranormal accounts reference a prisoner who died at an on-site facility, possibly from forced labor or inhumane treatment methods.

$ All ages Family: High

Waterville — 1

The Sanger Mansion, a 52-room stone house atop West Hill in Waterville, New York.
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Haunted House / Historic Home

Sanger Mansion (Sangerfield House)

Waterville, NY

The Sanger Mansion, also called Sangerfield House, is a 52-room stone manor built in 1906 by Colonel William Carey Sanger Sr. on West Hill above Waterville, New York. The grounds were laid out by the Olmsted firm. The house served as a Stigmatine monastery from 1960 to 1970 before returning to private ownership.

$ All Ages Family: High

Westchester — 1

Stony Hill Cemetery, Buckout Road, Harrison, New York. A 19th-century cemetery for African Americans.
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Buckhout Road

Westchester, NY

Buckhout Road is a wooded backroads location in Westchester County, New York dating to the 1600s. The site is historically significant as a location of alleged witch executions in colonial America, and later the location of grave crimes and murder. The road's dark history spans centuries, from witchcraft trials through 19th-century violent crimes, creating layers of documented tragedy.

$ All ages Family: Not Recommended

Westfield — 1

The 1818 Federal-style McClurg Mansion on East Main Street in Westfield, New York, home of the Chautauqua County Historical Society
Museum / Historical Site

McClurg Museum

Westfield, NY

McClurg Mansion was built in 1818 by James McClurg, the son of a Pittsburgh industrialist, in what was then frontier western New York. Contemporaries called it 'McClurg's Folly' for its ambitious scale — large rooms and high ceilings at odds with the surrounding log cabins. The 14-room Federal-style mansion was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 and has housed the Chautauqua County Historical Society since 1951.

$ All Ages Family: High

Whitehall — 1

Victorian Gothic grey-sandstone exterior of Skene Manor above Whitehall, New York
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Haunted House / Historic Home

Skene Manor

Whitehall, NY

Skene Manor is a Victorian Gothic mansion built from 1872 to 1874 for New York State Supreme Court Justice Joseph H. Potter, designed by Philadelphia architect Isaac H. Hobbs and built by local contractor A. C. Hopson at a cost of roughly $25,000. The hill it sits on was once part of land tied to Philip Skene, the British officer who founded Whitehall (originally Skenesborough) in 1759. The grey-sandstone house later operated as a restaurant before being acquired and restored by the nonprofit Whitehall Skene Manor Preservation. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Judge Joseph Potter House.

$ All Ages Family: High

Wingdale — 1

Derelict buildings of the former Harlem Valley State Hospital in Wingdale, New York
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Asylum / Hospital

Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center

Wingdale, NY

Harlem Valley State Hospital opened in 1924 in Wingdale (Town of Dover), Dutchess County, New York, repurposing buildings originally begun as the Wingdale Prison. At its 1950s peak it held more than 5,000 patients across some 80 buildings on roughly 900 acres. A pioneer in insulin-shock, electroshock, and lobotomy treatments, it closed in 1994 and now stands largely abandoned, with part of the property bought by Olivet University in 2013.

$ All Ages Family: Low

Yonkers — 1

Residential two-family homes on Lee Avenue in Yonkers, New York
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Other Dark Tourism Site

Lee Avenue

Yonkers, NY

Lee Avenue is a short residential street in Yonkers, Westchester County, New York. The block became the subject of documented paranormal accounts when author Donna Parish-Bischoff published The Lee Avenue Haunting, first released in 2012, chronicling her family's five-year experience in a two-family home on the street from 1974 to 1979. Prior occupants of the home had died by suicide — the owners' mother had hanged herself in the house, and a previous downstairs tenant had also died by suicide.

$ All Ages Family: High

Youngstown — 1

Old Fort Niagara French Castle, Youngstown New York
Battlefield / Military Site

Old Fort Niagara

Youngstown, NY

Old Fort Niagara guards the mouth of the Niagara River where it meets Lake Ontario. The 1726 French Castle, called the "House of Peace," remains the oldest building in the Great Lakes region and anchors a fortification that flew French, British, and American flags between 1726 and 1815.

$$ All Ages Family: High

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