Places Awaters83 Wants to Go

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

"Bite or Smite" became the unlikely mascot of a Tampa suburb.

These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

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

The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.

This funky outdoor gallery in Florida is filled with whimsical recycled art installations.

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

One man's psychedelic fence is painted with his cacophonous folk art musings on the world.

One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

This Gothic castle was inspired by Erik the Red's Viking residence at Brattahlid in Greenland.

Rumored to have tormented a family in the late 1960s, this toy now resides in a quiet little oddities shop.

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

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

This statue intended for children to enjoy became a minor political spat.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

A simple but powerful tribute to the 20 victims of the 1692 witch trials.

A unique music museum housed in a historic Boston theater.

The proud hometown of an American legend has honored their favorite son with what seems to be a gravestone.