Places ashleydjackson Wants to Go

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

This romantic, decaying 13th-century ruin on the edge of Sherwood Forest is reputedly one of England's most haunted places.

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

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

Live out your childhood construction fantasies in this one-of-a-kind gyrating hotel.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

This naturally-sourced hot spring is now home to a clothing-optional resort.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

A few dilapidated structures are all that remain of this deserted former silver mining town.