Places acrig Wants to Go

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

A large open-air Socialist Realist mosaic, considered the largest in Serbia.

Over 70 independent businesses have set up shop in this former Victorian department store.

This gravestone tells the tragic tale of its occupant's death.

Once the site of medieval pilgrimage for its healing powers, this well was lost and later rediscovered.

The United States' only educational center specializing in disease vectors and mosquitoes.

A long and winding trail through an ancient forest of imaginative sculptures hidden behind a garden center.

The last remains of a long-demolished estate.

A curiously placed cannon along a roundabout in Freetown marks the boundary of the old city.

This sea stack in Cyprus is traditionally seen as the birthplace of the goddess Aphrodite.

Built in the early 70s, the ruins of dinosaurs are all that remains of a man’s dream to build a free dinosaur themed mini golf course

Eat green onion ice cream and other allium-centric treats at this unusual museum.

A tiny wilderness cemetery commemorates the deadliest episode of the Klondike Gold Rush.

A museum devoted entirely to hammers has more than 1,400 items on display dating back to the Romans.

The oldest original lighthouse in Alaska that was born out of a tragic shipwreck.

This shrine to the patron saint of Alaska sits on a small tidal island and was built from the land’s own beach stones.

Every summer, the Mendenhall River greenbelt comes alive with an explosion of magenta flowers.

Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.

On top of a sheet metal business in Juneau stand nearly a dozen charming Wizard of Oz statues.

One toy collector's legacy of hundreds of unique items includes the most diverse display of northern indigenous dolls.