Places christinadan9 Wants to Go

The burial grounds of a secret society includes fences topped with fake Tesla balls.

This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.

This old train trestle and collapsed tunnel once allowed the railroad to negotiate the steep slopes of the Colorado Rockies.

Toss a Frisbee through the ruins of this Colorado gold mining town.

This nearly abandoned town was once a thriving mining community until a series of fires.

Silver in the hills led to the speedy creation of this boom town and a lack of it saw the town abandoned nearly as quickly.

A museum dedicated to the mysterious cryptid.

This 19th-century ranch is being transformed into a residential library with thousands of books about the natural world.

Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.

This fully restored synagogue explores the American Jewish experience along the old frontier.

A museum of natural history, Edwin Carter's original log cabin home and workshop houses taxidermy specimens.

The home of a formerly enslaved man who went on to become a prospector, entrepreneur, and activist for Black rights.

Above Breckenridge, a destructive mining technique sits sunken in a small pond.

Isak Heartstone, a 15-foot wooden troll made out of recycled materials.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.

The world's first time capsule lies behind a welded steel door in Atlanta.

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

Inside this shop, visitors are treated to a unique blend of natural history and art.

Victorian "Fancy Craft" Hair Wreaths and Relics.

Hidden beyond a kitschy giant beetle is this remarkably sprawling collection of preserved insects.

This grand stone tower was dedicated to a famed American humorist almost by coincidence.