We don't know much about this house, but doesn't it look like the perfect haunted mansion?

Few architects, when designing a building, imagine it becoming the spot of their murder, so it is must have been a shock for Stanford White to be shot on the roof of his own creation. Harry Kendall Thaw attacked White in what was called at the time: "The Crime of the Century" and still provokes controversy today.

Few looking at this church would it expect it to have been the site of a grizzly murder yet on Christmas Eve, 1933 that's exactly what happened. Leon Tourian, the archbishop of the Eastern Armenian Church for the United States had earned the ire of Armenian nationalists. Normally guarded, the archbishop was certain that no harm would come to him on such a holy day. This assumption proved false when, whilst walking down the aisle, Tourian was surrounded by assailants and stabbed to death.

In the corner of this photo can be spotted Umberto's Clam House, an old mob hangout. In 1972, shortly after the restaurant's opening, mob boss Joe Gallo, having decided to come in for a snack, was killed. Having been shot 5 times by two hitmen, Gallo stumbled out into the street and then died.

The Octagon Tower is the only surviving structure of the 1839 New York Lunatic Asylum, and it certainly looks the part of a creepy abandoned mental hospital in this ca. 1970s photograph.

Few gangsters were more infamous than Arnold Rothstein in Prohibition-era New York. "The Brain" had rigged the 1919 world series, was a skilled gambler, and had come to dominate the bootlegging gangs of New York. However, his failure to pay a large debt in a poker game caused Rothstein to be shot. Before he died in the Stuyvesant Polyclinic Hospital, Rothstein refused to answer questions about his shooting, he supposedly retorted "you stick to your trade, I'll stick to mine."

The oldest NYC house still occupied as a private residence, the 1654 building (with 1729 additions) sits next to a colonial cemetery, the final resting place of 132 Lent-Riker family members. An 1818 gravestone inscription reads, "Weep not my friends all dear, I am not dead but sleeping here; The debt is paid, the grave you see, Prepare for death and follow me.”

Twentieth-century tenants of this building on West 10th Street claim to have seen the ghost of Mark Twain, who lived there briefly in 1900, as well as the spirits of no less than 20 other persons who have died in the nearly 175-year-old house.

In late December 1878, the residents of this Brooklyn home began experiencing mysterious happenings: doorbells ringing, violently rattling doors and a broken window. According to the NY Times reporting the police even got involved. After two weeks of the strangeness, the Times notes that the resident, Edward Smith, had banished the spirits with "a long and honest prayer."

This Gay Street address was once the home of corrupt Mayor Jimmy Walker's showgirl mistress and later a Prohibition-era speakeasy. Neighbors say they still can catch the spirits of flappers and the Gay Street Phantom—a dapper gent in a cloak and top hat—on the street at night.

Once owned by confectioner Gustav Mayer, this 10-bedroom Italianate Revival home might not be haunted but it certainly looks the part. 🏚️

This seedy SRO hotel was the final address of 18-year-old Linda Fitzpatrick. A wealthy boarding school runaway, she was murdered, along with her hippie boyfriend, in 1969 during an LSD-fueled attack in the basement of an East Village flophouse.

The treacherous tidal strait known as Hell Gate is the site of scores of pre-20th century shipwrecks, owing to the dangerous rocks and sometimes violent converging currents. In 1904, it also played a part in the General Slocum disaster that killed more than 1000 women and children.

David Belasco, the building's namesake, supposedly still haunts this 1907 theatre and its ongoing performances.

The Hotel Chelsea has had its fair share of grisly history. Most famously, is the murder of Nancy Spungen, girlfriend to Sid Vicious, who was stabbed to death in their room in 1978. Rumor has it that former residents have stuck around eternally, including Dylan Thomas and a grief-stricken Titanic survivor named Mary.

The Hotel Endicott saw an unusually high occurrence of a disaster, scandal, murder in the early 20th century. In one case in 1909, after having been continually rebuffed by the object of her infatuation, an Endicott chambermaid visited his nearby apartment and drank acid before knocking on his door. She, of course, died from the poison.

Supposedly the ghost of Olive Thomas, a Ziegfield Follies girl who committed suicide in 1920, still haunts the New Amsterdam. Theatre employees greet her photograph, hung at every entrance, each morning to keep her spirit mischief to a minimum.

💀 Washington Square Park was once the site of the city's potter's field, a couple of local church cemeteries, and a hangman's gallows. In 2015 during water main work under the park, two burial vaults were discovered filled with largely intact wooden coffins and human remains.💀

Best known as the daily meeting spot for a group of writers, critics and actors post World War I, stories say that members of the Round Table (also called the Vicious Circle) have stayed on at the hotel, including its most famous member Dorothy Parker.

In 1870 the wealthy stockbroker uncle of poet Emma Lazarus was bludgeoned to death in his mansion of 23rd Street. Though suspicion was cast on his wild, and sometimes unstable, 22-year-old son, the crime was never solved.

Gertrude Tredwell, the last family member to live in the house, died there in 1933 at age 93. Some say she remains. The Merchant's House Museum even offers candle-lit ghost tours to try and catch a glimpse.

The courthouse built by the efforts (legal and otherwise) of Tammany's Boss Tweed, was also the locations where he was convicted of embezzlement in a yet unfinished courtroom in 1873. The building's nightwatchmen have supposedly seen the man's spirit in the very same room.

One of the theatre impresarios who created Radio City Music Hall, Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel, supposedly still haunts the auditorium and his private apartment in the building.

A story from the Terminal's open year goes like this: passengers report seeing an anxious man saying that the train to hell was coming for him at midnight. At 12:00 a.m. the man vanished and a whistle was heard, despite the next train not scheduled until 12:05.

The first structure on the land that is now occupied by the 1799 St. Mark's Church was a family chapel built by Peter Stuyvesant on his farm. Pegleg Peter, who is buried in a vault under the building, allegedly still roams the grounds.

In 1947 a young woman named Evelyn McHale leaped to her death from the ESB and the photo of her after having landed on a limousine below was disseminated as a portrait of "the most beautiful suicide."

The creepy setting for the 1968 horror classic "Rosemary’s Baby," the Dakota is also said to be haunted by ghosts of residents past. 👻👻👻

Edgar Allan Poe lived here briefly while writing his supernaturally themed work, "The Raven." Though the home has been moved and gutted (only a single banister remains of the original structure), Poe apparently still makes his presence know.

A favorite watering hole of writer Dylan Thomas, it was here that he boasted he has consumed 18 straight whiskeys (a number denied by the bartender), stumbled back to his hotel (Hotel Chelsea, also on this list), after which he became unresponsive. He later died at a hospital and according to regulars, still keeps tabs on his favorite table at the pub.

The Morris-Jumel Mansion, much like the Merchant's House, is rumored to have some supernatural activity and they actively embrace it with regular ghost-hunting tours. 🔦

The cemetery at St. Paul's Chapel dates to 1697 and rumor has it that many of its inhabitants still haunt the place, including the headless spirit of 18th-century British actor George Frederick Cooke. Cooke died from alcoholism while performing on an American tour in 1811. He was supposedly decapitated postmortem after willing his head to science to pay his doctor bills.

It was in 1957 at the barbershop of the Park Sheraton Hotel that Albert Anastasia, a mob boss, and notorious murderer, was shot to death by two men whilst sitting in the barbers' chair. Anastasia lunged at the killers, only to discover he was looking at their reflections in the barbershop mirror. The brazen killing appalled the public and the haircut killing became forever associated with the mob.

The owner of this home was murdered by "a party of Jersey raiders" in 1784! 🔪🔪🔪