Places benson24 Wants to Go

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

A reliquary of pop culture marvels, including the world's largest (and most terrifying) Jack-in-the-Box.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

Who knew the Devil's domain was a hot spot for tubing?

An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.

A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.

Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

This enormous abandoned factory is now a makeshift graffiti gallery.

The only surviving building of historic West Boylston, which was flooded to create the Wachusett Reservoir.

250-year-old farm now features sculptures, a petting zoo and a hippy-bazaar.

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.

This picturesque Victorian ghost town was once a thriving mill community.

An abandoned 146-acre summer resort slowly being reclaimed by nature.

An abandoned Depression-era zoo hidden just off the highway.

An overgrown and abandoned tuberculosis ward resides in the midst of a quaint modern neighborhood.

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.

An abandoned Victorian-era mill in the middle of modern Manchester.

This decrepit abandoned building is made all the more eerie by its dark history.

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

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