Places downwardspiral Wants to Go

A Rodeo for Prisoners.

A reimagined 19th-century Acadian village featuring authentic Cajun-style homes filled with artifacts specific to the period.

This sinkhole was created by a tragic industrial accident and continues to ravage the surrounding landscape.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

Inside this art and oddity-filled shop, a small room filled with secrets.

All that remains of this small town is its mass grave and a myth of a voodoo priestess who predicted its demise.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.

For 20 years, local pumpkins have met their fate on the iron fence surrounding this Cobble Hill home.

Every animal in the torah taxidermied and crammed into a Brooklyn townhouse.

This small, hidden cove is home to abandoned boats.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

Dubbed the "smallest church in America," this tiny sanctuary was a local grocer's dream come true.

This South Carolina water tower is an icon of the city of Walterboro, but it also once served as the county jail.

Smack-dab in Campania’s volcanic fields, this scenic lake was once thought to be the gate of hell.

Coca Cola may be "the real thing" but its inventor, buried at this Georgia gravesite, called it a "valuable brain tonic."

In 1863, a woman buried her hard-drinking husband beneath his beloved booze.

The whimsical construction on the roof has given rise to many a Montgomery myth about its contents.

That bass was as bad a fish as any angler ever knew.

The country music legend's grave is surrounded by Astroturf because fans kept plucking out the grass.

An autonomous oak in Alabama.

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

Cadillac where country's first big star was found dead.

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.