Places donnatalarico Wants to Go

This state park was once an important Native American cermonial center.

This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."

This kitschy curio wonderland is full of fake animals, teak tables, and a cacophony of random bric-a-brac.

The unique collection includes bronze cast handprints of some of America's most famous astronauts.

A former hospital is now home to a pizza parlor and maybe a few ghosts.

These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

The abandoned bathhouse is all that remains of the hot springs considered Florida's original tourist attraction.

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

North Central Florida's largest flea market and a weekend roadtripper's dream.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.

Honoring the famed folktale author, this California museum looks like it belongs in the Black Forest.

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

This disastrous New Jersey safari park saw animal attacks, escapes, and disease before being abandoned.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

A semi-abandoned replica of Prince Edward Island's Avonlea—in Japan.

An abandoned Victorian-era amusement park is rusting away amidst luxury houses.

This western-themed amusement park is host to a large number of decaying animatronic cowboys.

A quaint amusement park now sits, rusting and forgotten among the foliage.