Places AdiEm23 Wants to Go

This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.

Join in a Seance at the Swedenborgian Church.

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

Where the rich wintered in Pasadena.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

Remains of a historic fountain that was mysteriously lost in the demolition of a D.C. traffic circle.

The ruins of this long-abandoned unsuccessful gold mine can still be found.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

Brain collection and database that narrows the gap between man and animal.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

Bar full of oddities, specimens, artifacts and homages to the great dime museums of the past.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.

Fascinating museum dedicated to the under-appreciated medical history of urology features some wince-inducing devices.