Places Crabeater Wants to Go

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

The grounds of former plantations where abolitionist Harriet Tubman spent her youth enslaved are now a museum to her incredible life.

This historic boathouse was constructed using salvaged lumber from burned barns.

Classic burger joint that’s been serving up sliders since 1952.

An opulent testament to the boom-and-bust history of industry in north central Indiana.

A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.

This abandoned, windowless concrete block is one of the strangest buildings in Tulsa.

Enchanting gardens surround a derelict mansion, all hidden in plain sight behind a stone wall.

An occult-y, historic hotel with the World's Largest Ouija board on the roof.

Sleep in a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home or dine in the treetops in this architecture park.

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

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

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

In 2019, an anonymous photo of a windowless room with eerie yellow wallpaper was posted to 4chan from this building, launching 'The Backrooms', one of the internet’s most massive collaborative horror phenomena.

A remote island marking the entrance to Death’s Door, surrounded by the bones of ships who failed to heed her warnings.

The tragic death of 19-year-old Mabel Tainter in 1886 led to the construction of this unique Victorian-era theater in the northern woods of Wisconsin.

The spaceship-like theater, which is still in use, was one of the most popular exhibits at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

A massive sustainable farm designed by the mastermind behind Central Park.

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruously in rural Vermont.

It leads to a former hospital’s old root cellar.

A charming remnant of 19th-century fishing towns sits on Michigan’s Leelanau Peninsula.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.