Places carliethompsonwriting Wants to Go

These 40,000-year-old stenciled hands are older than the famous cave art in France and Spain.

The self-proclaimed gateway to the Extraterrestrial Highway.

A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

A perfectly preserved small-town pharmacy and soda fountain that opened in the early 20th century and closed in the 1980s.

A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.

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

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

No one knows how many bodies are in this vault in a Chicago public park.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

Mysterious wreckage of a small plane has been lodged in this tree since at least 1971.

A floating McDonald's built for Expo '86 is now a derelict relic on Burrard Inlet.

The scattered debris of a T-33 Canadian naval jet crash from 1963 now stands as a memorial.

Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

Housing a morgue, rare and confiscated weapons, and autopsy remains, the Vancouver police museum displays the dark side of Canada.