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Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

The engineering wonder and pleasure dome of a much-maligned emperor still holds undiscovered secrets.

The boulder on which Alexander Hamilton laid his head after a deadly duel can still be visited on the New Jersey coast.

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.

This disastrous New Jersey safari park saw animal attacks, escapes, and disease before being abandoned.

Haunted Victorian house that inspired a legendary "Ghostbusters" court ruling.

This derelict building used to house infirm Freemasons, their widows, and orphans.

This crumbling little graveyard was saved from the undergrowth by concerned veterans.

This hospital fell into ruins after failing to act as the advocate for the mentally ill it was designed to be.

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.

The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."

One man's lifelong obsession with death.

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.

Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

As can be expected from a centuries old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

Plymouth's huge yet little-known memorial to the Pilgrims.

Haunted boulder in a front yard with a witch painted on it.