Places downwardspiral Wants to Go

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

Wild West history in Hollywood style.

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

Hike amid the palm trees that thrive among Southern California's Indio Hills.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

The final resting place of one of the United States's greatest poets.

The headquarters of the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, complete with Rosicrucian pyramids, all in the Pennsylvania woods.

A tragic mystery left this boy nameless for 65 years.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.

America's first serial killer rests in anonymity.

Arlington Cemetery exhibit dedicated to death and grieving.

War prevented this Polish composer's body from being returned to his home country for 51 years. Though his ashes eventually made it home, his heart stayed behind.

Now the final resting place of prominent artists and musicians, it was originally founded to separate the rich from the poor in death.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.

An unassuming island in the middle of the Hudson that hosts campers, including Aleister Crowley.

Three acres of mythology-inspired sculptures are visible from the highway.