Places downwardspiral Wants to Go

The site of William McKinley's tragic assassination is only marked by an underwhelming boulder.

A monument honoring those who died in the Great Famine of Ireland.

A Victorian cemetery hidden along a trucking route is all that remains of a 19th century village.

The nude sculpture on this fountain shocked conservative townsfolk when it was first unveiled, but not as much as the dead body found in it decades later.

A 1975 bylaw prohibits the construction of any building that would block the view of this Gothic Revival church.

It took over 100 years to decode this enigmatic epitaph for two buried brides.

The racehorse's headstone highlights a forgotten part of the Hendrie Park Gardens' history.

An abandoned skate park located in the middle of the wilderness.

With well over 130 falls and cascades to brag about, Hamilton, Ontario has earned its stripes as the waterfall capital of the world.

Only six people can sit inside this delightfully quaint sanctuary.

Abandoned for over a century, this chilling train tunnel is now a destination for ghost hunters.

Legend says that this short Canadian tunnel still holds the dying screams of a girl who burned alive.

A memorial to the tens of thousands of Irish who fled to North America during the Great Famine.

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.

This abandoned cemetery is crumbling into ruin, exposing the artifacts and bodies buried there.

The Brigadier General was so afraid of being buried alive that he had a buzzer installed in his mausoleum, just in case he woke up.

The poet's been ambling through these New York woods since 1940.

An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.

Glacial erratic or man-made dolmen? It probably wasn't druids.

This giant rock arrived at this quiet park thousands of years ago on the back of a massive glacier.

Final resting place of Typhoid Mary.

The first pet cemetery in the United States.

A miscalculation turns a very shallow freshwater lake into a very deep saltwater lake.

This creepy, yet oddly beautiful cemetery is home to one of the founding fathers of Lake Charles.