Places alessandralee Wants to Go

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

An abandoned jewel of a ballroom on the top floor of Australia’s busiest rail station echoes with the sounds of a bygone era.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

During the 1990's nearly all of the world's LSD is thought to have come from the operators of the lab once located in this missile silo.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

Foreign invaders almost left this lovely Caucasus palace alone—almost.

A quirky house created entirely out of glass bottles combines a collector's spirit with an artist's flair.

This roadside shrine to an unofficial saint has welcomed the wishes and prayers of local believers for generations.

This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.

An enchanting work of outsider art, full of whimsical sculptures and carvings.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.