Places 100indecisions Wants to Go

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

Scattered around Atlanta are little doors with big charm.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

This abandoned mining village was predicted to resist decay longer than any other modern human settlement.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

Made famous by cable TV, this oddball collection of antiques and collectibles is a cut above the rest.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

After an epic flood washed away its enslavers, this city has been part ghost town, part cultural wildcard for the past three centuries.

Planned as the world’s first zero-carbon city, it had lofty ideals—but is only 5 percent completed and aiming for 50 percent carbon-neutral.

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

A small medical museum with a recreated doctor's office.

Explore an early California pioneer's rancho hidden in LA's manufacturing hinterland.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

Gleaming self-built castle towers made from beer cans and inspired by "Vitamin Mary Jane."

A small sculpture garden that provides a microcosmic representation of California.

This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.

The cobbled together compound of a deceased artist which now serves as a filming location.

This large collection of tiny things revels in the art of fine machinery well made.

This dark, quiet forest on the outskirts of San Diego is dense with rumor and lore.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.