Places alexz Wants to Go

After four years of grasshopper plagues, this chapel was erected as a plea to God to make them end.

This tiny historic jail along Route 66 is the perfect fit for exactly one criminal and their partner-in-crime.

A river with some unusual, and occasionally dangerous, habits.

A small abandoned and abused cemetery that has become a magnet for ghost hunters.

Even with only two residents and one building, this tiny Illinois town is famous for its burgers.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

Former hotel turned into haunted playground.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

Under a playground is a little-known sealed train tunnel that likely contains the bodies of workers trapped by cave-ins.

A double agent hid information for the Soviet Union beneath this bridge for more than 20 years.

Once on display alongside a giant Gumby, it’s as tall as a nine-story building when fully extended.

This grave marks the passing of a historic Jane Doe whose identity remains a mystery to this day.

This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

America's first serial killer rests in anonymity.

Behold the rickety glory of one of the oldest roller coasters still standing.

It would take 35 firetrucks to fill this enormous glacial pothole.

One man's real life disfigurement inspired a lasting local legend surrounding an eerie tunnel.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

Pennsylvanian mass grave and possibly mass murder.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

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

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.