Two days across New York State: from the Hudson Valley village that gave America its Headless Horseman, south into Manhattan to a windowless tower secretly built for mass surveillance, and out to the tip of Long Island where a decommissioned Cold War base is rumored to have hidden a government mind-control program.
A village in Westchester County, New York, made famous by Washington Irving's 1820 short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and its ghostly Headless Horseman, now a destination for Halloween-season folklore tourism.
Start in the Hudson Valley village Washington Irving made famous in 1820. Walk the Old Dutch Burying Ground and the bridge his Headless Horseman is said to have chased Ichabod Crane across.
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A windowless 550 foot Manhattan skyscraper identified through Edward Snowden's leaked documents as a major NSA mass surveillance hub hidden inside a working AT&T switching building.
Drive south into Manhattan to look up at a windowless 550-foot tower hiding in plain sight on a SoHo street corner, identified through Edward Snowden's leaked files as a major NSA surveillance hub disguised as a phone company switching building.
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A conspiracy theory claiming secret US government experiments in time travel and mind control were conducted at Camp Hero, a real decommissioned military installation in Montauk, New York, now a public state park.
Finish at the eastern tip of Long Island, where a decommissioned Cold War radar station is now a public state park, and, according to a persistent conspiracy theory, was once the site of secret government experiments in time travel and mind control.
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