Places ashleymlawrence Wants to Go

This old-fashioned candy shop, ice cream parlor, and diner served as the setting for one of TV's most controversial series finales.

The final resting place of one of the United States's greatest poets.

World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

One man's lifelong obsession with death.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

This Great Depression-era creation was once known as the strangest house in the world.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.

The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."

This scout retreat, still in use today, was the filming location for the original “Friday the 13th” film.

The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.

Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

This Nebraska museum was once the smallest courthouse in America.

In addition to fishing and camping, this spot in Nebraska’s Sandhills is one of the world’s darkest places.

This little gem of a museum is a hidden jewel filled with prehistoric treasures.