Hart Island is one of the latest mass graves turned visitor attractions in New York City. Many of the city’s most popular parks were built over public burial grounds known as potter’s fields ...

Be one of the first to take part in new public walking tours of the abandoned Hart Island led by Urban Park Rangers! Here are Untapped New York's favorite abandoned places in New York City's five ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) – Hart Island earned its name as New York City’s final resting place, but it may now become the city’s ...

Unlike American skeletons, this Roman skeleton had wings. How very fitting for this angel-skeleton to stop me cold in the world’s most beautiful city, amidst a week of glorious art, Church ...

NEW YORK — The first time I heard about Hart Island, I couldn’t believe it. There’s a 150-year-old mass grave on an island in the Bronx? And, until recently, it was totally off-limits to the ...

Gazing out at the sea of marsh grasses on Hart-Miller Island, Joe Corcoran had his eyes peeled. Corcoran, a longtime birder and president of the Baltimore Bird Club, was looking for a king rail ...

All mammals have skeletons, like this cat. Many animals have skeletons to support and protect their body and to help it move. The human skeleton is made of bones which grow as we grow. Your bones ...