Places Annie Oortman Wants to Go

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

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

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

North America's oldest quarantine facility was built in response to Philadelphia's 1793 yellow fever outbreak.

A miniature golf course crafted inside the world's largest simulated cave.

Francis Julius LeMoyne built this crematory in 1876; he was the third person to be cremated here.

This 19th century machine put animals (including humans) in boxes to study how they metabolized calories.

An American flag was erected for every day that passed during the Iranian Hostage Crisis.

The site of America's first commercial oil well essentially disappeared after the town went bust.

The aggressively banal name of this underground fortress of bureaucracy does little to evoke its truly surreal existence.

For decades, it has disappeared and reappeared as water levels rise and fall.

This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.

A rock maze opens up to a panoramic viewpoint at an abandoned mine full of ghost stories.

The only statue of its kind to commemorate Washington's beginnings as an officer of the British Colonial Militia.

The home of possibly the least-loved U.S. president stands as a sort of unpopular Monticello.

The graffitied ruins stand hidden within the Pennsylvania woods.

A soon-to-be-forgotten roadside spectacle loaded with local lore.

A hidden piece of Altoona's railroad history in a long-forgotten abandoned town.

A museum commemorating the Donora Smog, which killed 20 people in October 1948 and sparked national outrage over air pollution.

The legacy of baseball great Roberto Clemente is preserved in a retired Pittsburgh fire station.

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

The site of the little-known Pennsylvania battle that sparked the Seven Years' War.

This colonial mansion has been home to a staggering number of American historic figures.

The final resting place of the Hollywood star who came to a tragic end.