Newberry Springs, California
Rock-A-Hoola Waterpark
The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Newberry Springs, California
The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.
Houston, Texas
A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.
Seattle, Washington
A (slightly) grownup take on the classic retro arcade.
Los Angeles, California
The beautiful 1920 Pantages Theatre remains hidden just underneath the LA Downtown Jewelry Exchange.
Boston, Massachusetts
The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.
Monte Vista, Colorado
Possibly the world's only drive-in movie theater with an attached motel.
Hondo, Texas
On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.
Thira, Greece
A quirky bookstore hidden beneath a sea of whitewashed Greek villas.
Terlingua, Texas
An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.
Beatty, Nevada
Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.
Miami, Oklahoma
When you can afford only half a road, you build only half a road.
Prypiat, Ukraine
The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.
Roswell, New Mexico
A blacklight journey through a celestial art exhibit.
Seattle, Washington
Pick up all of the cosmic knick-knacks under the sun or take a creative writing course, all offered in this novelty storefront.
Prypiat, Ukraine
This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.
Nottingham, England
Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.
Iceland
This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.
Reykjavik, Iceland
One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.
Reykjavik, Iceland
This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.
Baturiti, Indonesia
An abandoned hotel in the highlands of Bali is shrouded in stories of ghosts, curses, and corruption.
Helotes, Texas
Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.
Paris, France
Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.
Long Beach, California
The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.
New York, New York
The beautiful tunnel that ran from the lobby to Penn Station is still hidden underneath 34th Street.