Places Chelgoroth Wants to Go

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

The abandoned hospital whose elaborate ghost stories cover up the dirty truth - an uneventful sanitation issue and other mundane reasons for its demise.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

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

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.