Places august16th Wants to Go

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

A retired military stronghold on the rolling green coast of Donegal.

One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.

An 1814 castle that hosts an exhibit of "explorabilia".

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and converted into a cocktail bar. Now it’s home to the local visitor bureau.

Amidst the bustling streets of Dublin, there is a hushed garden that is dedicated to "All those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish Freedom."

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

The first Catholic church in Singapore is a Neo-Gothic colossus with a rich architectural history.

A rocky Irish outcropping with a history of wealth, conflict, and ruin.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

A park and memorial dedicated to the victims of the deadliest school massacre in American history.

This abandoned 19th century orphanage started as a boarding school for children of Civil War veterans.

This World War II bunker now survives as a documentation of the Nazi regime and war crimes.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.