Places ams199 Wants to Go

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

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

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.