Places ams199 Wants to Go

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

A colorful square marks the heart of the city's LGBTQ community.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.

This little-known Revolutionary War fort is supposedly haunted by the ghosts of its past.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

Tucked away on an empty wooded lot in suburban Oklahoma City lie the remnants of an abandoned circus camp.

The clock that sets them all.

A quiet, gothic haven nestled between Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill and Point Breeze neighborhoods.

America's first public mental health facility.

A macabre farm reserved part of its 222-acres for dead bodies, all in the name of science.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

Jacksonville's highways rendered this century-old grammar school unusable.

This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.