Places ams199 Wants to Go

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

Suspended above the ground in a thicket of towering Georgia trees is a modern architectural wonder.

When this test site was abandoned, they didn't even bother to take the rocket with them.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

The most unique castle in all of Southern California, entirely constructed from repurposed materials.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.