Places asdonkar Wants to Go

A town church once nearly submerged by the damming of a river is now hauntingly visible as the water recedes.

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.