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Dark Destinations is an online travel guide to macabre locations around the world. We cover Halloween events and attractions, paranormal hotspots, horror movie locations, gruesome museums, cryptozoology, sites of dark moments in history and more!
Recent Posts Tagged With 'New York City'
The Plane that Struck the Empire State Building
Given the hustle and bustle of New York City, it is not surprising to find a few stories have slipped out of the collective consciousness and been relegated to a few paragraphs in the trivia section of travel books. However, some forgotten events be...
P.T. Barnum vs. the Brooklyn Bridge
Today marks the 125th Anniversary of a rather strange event on the world-famous Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, New York. On May 17, 1884, famed showman P.T. Barnum decided to unleash a public spectacle by leading a menagerie of his circus animals...
How Sad Was the Career, How Dark the Fate...
On today's date in 1885, the Actors Guild of New York a monument to Edgar Allan Poe that the guild had commissioned years prior. The ceremony was held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, where the monument was originally displayed. Th...
Come See the Eighth Wonder of the World
On March 2, 1933, the new RKO venture, King Kong, opened in New York City, New York and immediately smashed box office records (and even a few box offices in the film). The film displayed the latest cutting edge special effects (in the cyclical natu...
It's 21 Years on Broadway for The Phantom
On January 26, 1988, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera made its Broadway debut at the Majestic Theatre in New York City, New York. The debut followed its successful London, England launch at Her Majesty's Theatre a little over a year pr...
The Empire State Building's Bermuda Triangle
In January 2008, the New York Daily News published a rather odd account surrounding this popular New York City landmark with the headline, "Empire State Building Car Zap Mystery". According to the report, around 10-15 vehicles per day became mysteri...
UFOs - The Brooklyn Bridge Encounter
The famed Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, New York is the site of a rather unusual milestone late this evening. On November 30, 1989 at around approximately 3:00 A.M. EST, a couple of people on the bridge witnessed what they thought at the time wa...
