Places cmstoelb Wants to Go

Over time, this castle grew to encompass the entire island.

This popular pitstop lives up to its name.

It's as if the herds walked straight out of a fairy tale into the Missouri wilds.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

Known as the Casa de las Siete Chimeneas, this haunted 16th-century manor has a dark, mysterious past.

Savor the famous tempura-fried pork tenderloin sandwich at this long-standing Kansas City food counter.

A forgotten Cold War relic hidden in the outskirts of a Wisconsin city.

A short hike into the mountainside forest reveals a decaying 1890s town.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

The remains of a deserted 1800s farming community can be found in Little River State Park.

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

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

A key producer of charcoal iron in the early 1800s, the structure still stands today.

Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.

Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.

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

The location of Puerto Rico's first water bottling plant, thanks to a collaboration between Mother Nature and technology.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.

Tucked away on an empty wooded lot in suburban Oklahoma City lie the remnants of an abandoned circus camp.

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.