Haunted things to do in New York City
Looking for haunted places & dark-history spots in New York City? These 8 are the genuinely strange ones — Green-Wood Cemetery Catacombs (After Hours Tour), Morris-Jumel Mansion, Conference House (Billopp Manor) and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of New York City they'd never find on their own.
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Green-Wood Cemetery Catacombs (After Hours Tour)
A 478-acre Victorian garden cemetery and National Historic Landmark where roughly 600,000 people are buried b…
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Morris-Jumel Mansion
Built in 1765, this is the oldest surviving house in Manhattan, used by George Washington as a Revolutionary…
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Conference House (Billopp Manor)
A stone manor built around 1680 by Captain Christopher Billopp at the southern tip of Staten Island, overlook…
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Sleepy Hollow Cemetery & Old Dutch Church
The 90-acre cemetery and the adjacent circa-1685 Old Dutch Church burying ground are the real-world settings…
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Civic Virtue ('Fat Boy')
This 17-foot MacMonnies marble group shows a heroic nude man, sword over his shoulder, standing atop two writ…
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Renwick Smallpox Hospital Ruin
NYC's only landmarked ruin: a Gothic Revival stone hospital designed in 1856 by James Renwick Jr. (architect…
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Staten Island Boat Graveyard (Witte Marine Scrapyard)
In the Arthur Kill waterway sits a marine scrapyard where the rusting hulks of tugboats, ferries, and cargo s…
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Opus 40
Sculptor Harvey Fite spent 37 years single-handedly fitting thousands of bluestone pieces into a sprawling si…