Places doncarroll21 Wants to Go

This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

A jukebox headstone marks the grave of the Cleveland disc jockey credited with coining the term “rock 'n' roll."

The only presidential monument to display a late POTUS's actual casket.

The ruins of the suspension bridge hang over Kingsbury Run as a ghost of racial prejudice.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

For decades, this waterfall remained hidden because of an artificial dam.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

The largest and best-preserved Roman amphitheater in Africa was designed to seat 35,000 people.

The original film set of Luke Skywalker's Tatooine home from the 'Star Wars' trilogy.

Buildings from the fictional planet of Tatooine still litter the Tunisian desert.

No monkeying around, this fountain was really named after the classic sci-fi film.

You may recognize this beautiful grove within Kaitoke Regional Park as location of the house of Elrond.

An abandoned film set location for a remote spaceport in a galaxy far, far away hides in the Tunisian desert.

A seemingly simple canyon that was the backdrop to a number of famous movies.

The original movie set for the home of 'Star Wars' hero Luke Skywalker.

A funhouse dummy that turned out to be a real life mummy, Elmer McCurdy is an urban legend come true.

With the Wild Bunch hunted almost to extinction and the law closing in on him, Butch Cassidy fled to this remote cabin in Argentina.

In a largely deserted ghost town, a little brick building recalls its history as a gold rush hub and haven for outlaws.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.