Places clpartin Wants to Go

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

An eerie, abandoned military base engulfed by nature and graffiti is now home to a local park.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

A hidden alley in urban Baltimore is a haven for graffiti artists.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

A small research station sits at the summit of this mountain, which is one of the few U.S. peaks higher than 14,000 feet outside of the Sierra Nevada.

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

Little remains of the once flourishing Asbestos' asbestos mine.

An improbable waterfall springs from an orange-white cliff face, tumbling into the headwaters of the Virgin River above Zion National Park.

A commemorative plaque hides a door that leads down to the New York Public Library's underground book bunker.

A ghost town in a remote corner of Oregon hosts a touching tribute to Sacagawea’s son.

This small hermitage is located along an ancient route that connected the Tiber and Rieti valleys.

This stately palace, first built in the 16th century, was converted into a prison in 1830.

In the middle of a New England forest sit the crumbling ruins of World War II-era ammunition storage bunkers.

The longest eruption in the history of La Palma originated with this volcano in September 2021.

Out of a labyrinth of abandoned tunnels and stops, this Queens subway station is arguably the most mysterious—if it exists at all.

Harder layers in colorful sandstone weather out as prominent “fins" and even more intricate and bizarre shapes.