Places TheDarkTourist Wants to Go

The site of the "Bone Wars" between two rival paleontologists during the dinosaur rush of the 19th century.

This 19th century jail was mainly used to incarcerate the drunk and disorderly.

This now-abandoned outcrop is an important Native American spiritual site, overtaken by European settlers and mining pollution.

In a dry, neglected cemetery lies the unassuming grave of a soldier vilified in life but celebrated in death.

According to local legend, a tree grew from the stake that killed this alleged vampire. In reality, he probably died from influenza.

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

Small teepee-like houses built for TB patients have become sheds, studios, and bus stops around Colorado Springs.

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

Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

A downtown park built on top of unclaimed graves.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

Small museum packed with artifacts recovered by the man rumored to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

An overgrown garden stands as a grim marker of an unrealized dream.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.