Places ams199 Wants to Go

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

The scant remains of this flooded historic village can be explored in one of the most remote areas of the Great Smokies.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie 'The Fugitive' can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.

A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.