Places akiraa1 Wants to Go

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

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

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

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

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.