I’ve been to the spot where Nobunaga Oda died in Kyoto. It’s in the middle of an area with some small shops and apartment building.
I’ve walked in Stephen Crane’s footsteps and visited the site of the Battle ofCuzco Wells. Something a small amount of people have done. Parts of the tile roofs of the old buildings are still there. There is a small plaque but its placed on the wrong spot.
That’s got a visitors center and all, so I don’t know if it’s considered forgotten or neglected. But maybe that’s because I live here, and everybody knows where it is, It’s even got it’s own exit sign on I-70 
I’ve been to Doc Holliday’s “grave” in Glenwood Springs. It is not really his grave, since they’re not sure where he’s actually buried. People still leave decks of cards and bottles of whiskey on the chosen gravesite anyway.
The sanitarium where he died is now a commercial building.
Great one! I was just there a few weeks ago. My wife, 2-year-old child, and I did a road trip around the canyons and Indian territories of the Southwest, and I picked Hovenweep as one of the five or six key destinations, after reading about it in a book called 500 Places to See Before They Disappear (Frommer’s).
Hovenweep is off the beaten track (we spent the night in Cortez, CO, a cool little town), and is made up of several archaeological sites each one a few km apart from the next, so do a little homework before you go (Ian Thompson’s short book The Towers of Hovenweep is an excellent guide.
The way some of those towers were built as if they grow out of the big boulders is quite something. The importance of locating at water sources at the head of canyons is pretty apparent as well. The two-year-old enjoyed walking around the ruins and the juniper and sagebrush – his favorite was Lowrey Pueblo, which technically isn’t run by the same people who run Hovenweep but is really part of the same complex.
I also drive by Philips Manufacturing Co. (Stoughton, MA)-birthplace of the “Philips head screw”. It is an invention that changed the world! Sadly, no plaque commemorates this!
Fort Ross, and the old San Francisco bay area gun emplacements. Those might be more “lesser known” than “neglected,” though.
They couldn’t figure out how to fasten it to something.
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To tell of the ride of William Dawes…
I read a book outside Alexander Hamilton’s house. I don’t think it’s neglected, but it looked pretty forgotten/ignored. Supposedly there’s a visitor’s center and tours, but I didn’t see evidence of either.
I’ve also looked for the townhouse that was accidentally blown up by by the Weathermen in 1970. The building is gone now though and the address is skipped. Apparently Eleanor Roosevelt was born in the house next door though.
Seminole Indian Army Scouts cemetery near Brackettville, TX. Four of these soldiers received the Medal of Honor and are buried there.
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Are you referring to Nevis, the octagonal house in Irvington, New York, or to some house on Nevis, the Caribbean island where he was born and for which the former is named?
Actually, I’m now remembering that perhaps Hamilton never actually lived in the Irvington house, just his daughter or something. So, I take it you’re referring to some structure on Manhattan (or, knowing how things tend to go in Manhattan, the location of some former structure.)
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I’ve actually walked by Hamilton’s birthplace on Nevis. It didn’t look neglected, but it wasn’t open when I was there either.
On Manhattan, I’ve tried to find the location of Aeolian Hall, which is where Rhapsody in Blue was premiered. I think I got it narrowed down to two buildings, but I’m not sure if either still had any kind of concert hall inside.
If that’s the one I’m thinking – Greenwich Village, right? – Dustin Hoffman lived right next door. Luckily he and his family weren’t home when the explosion occurred.
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