Places andeedangerously Wants to Go

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

Rows of 19th-century brick ovens used to process coal into coke form the center of a wooded park.

Dental instruments from the illustrious history of American dentistry.

According to local myth this cemetery is half evil spirits, half good—split down the middle.

A retired firefighter created this contraption so he and his family wouldn't die if accidentally buried alive.

A building-sized painting of the renowned 19th-century American abolitionist.

One man handcrafts "the best sake made outside of Japan" in a tiny desert town on Route 66.

For this chef, an active volcano is his oven.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

The dishes at this restaurant by The Sioux Chef celebrate indigenous heritage.

In the Scottish Highlands, this 13th-century castle ruin is hidden at the end of a farm track.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

Solving a 60-year mystery finally gave a name to the young woman known only by the color of her clothes.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

The small cave that housed Tennessee's "first citizen."

The "last unrestored grand mansion of Savannah" is now a cramped, mouldering maze of antiques.

Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.

When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

This floating garden in the sky is straight out of a fairy tale, but the real thing is nothing short of magical.

This twisty sign depicts the chain's first logo.

Local myth claims this is a Sears catalogue home with its windows installed upside-down.