Places declansalcido Wants to Go

The world's oldest and largest museum of mass transit vehicles.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

Once home to seven different roller coasters, Glen Echo has undergone many transformations since its founding in 1891.

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

A remote horde of architectural treasures fit for Indiana Jones.

This former asylum for Black Americans is haunted by its history of violence and racism.

A remarkable time capsule of American manufacturing deep in Maryland coal country.

One of the oldest anatomical theaters in the U.S. still in use was once the site of an infamous cadaver riot.

Live data is transmitted from the Atlantic coast to instantly recreate the ocean waves in this fountain at the NOAA headquarters.

The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

A suburban museum tells the story of a historic transportation network and even provides rides in antique trolley cars.

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

This architectural onion has an original 1930's Jerry O'Mahony dining car at its core.

Explore the dark underground corridors of this graffiti-covered former military fortification.

True to its name, this bouncy walkway may be the world’s smallest suspension bridge.

An abandoned underground bunker not far from downtown New Orleans.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.

A pop-culture attraction outside of Dyersville, Iowa, hits a home run.

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.