Places alwaysheartshapedboxes Wants to Go

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

When you can afford only half a road, you build only half a road.

The final resting place of the camel who served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

A burnt-out motel with priceless Native American artwork in the basement, redeveloped into apartments.

An abandoned amusement park based on the popular 1940s Red Ryder comic strip.

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

This divisive system of turtle tunnels was built to save animals stranded after a highway split a lake in half.

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

A Rodeo for Prisoners.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

A bronze plaque at an intersection in Hoboken marks the place where the game of baseball first took shape.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

A grandiose octagonal home crowned by a large dome stands out among the antebellum mansions.

The largest dinosaur trackway in North America is tucked away among this canyon's ghosts and archaeological gems.

Thousands of jack o'lanterns light up Halloween at this historic West Virginia home.

An adorably sweet display of sculpted Precious Moments figurines.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

The only museum dedicated to the history of the "Magic Lantern," a medieval slide projector.

A tiny waterway named after a ghost story.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

A college in rural Kansas founded to prepare the country for an impending World War III.

On Hilton Head Island this bronze King of the Sea rules all things briny—and lets you know if you’re late for lunch.