Places Artemesia Wants to Go

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

An abandoned observatory in the middle of the Illinois prairie.

A once extravagant mansion, now reduced to ruin.

This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.

The remnants of a classic 1970's British film.

This nearly abandoned town was once a thriving mining community until a series of fires.

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

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

The farm where one of America's greatest leaders was raised is now a well-appointed landmark.

Lions and tigers and leopards, servals, pumas, bobcats, lynxes, and ocelots... oh my!

Symbolic attempt to overcome the issues of life.

Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.

The “American Gothic" artist's largest works hang in an Iowa State University library.

An eclectic assortment of medieval architecture in a small Iowa town.

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

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

The museum moved on, but the diorama remain.

A charming remnant of 19th-century fishing towns sits on Michigan’s Leelanau Peninsula.