Places ams199 Wants to Go

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.