Places dscamacho Wants to Go

The former estate of the Guggenheims, part of the opulent Gold Coast that inspired the Great Gatsby.

Site of the creepy house used in Lucio Fulci's "The House by the Cemetery."

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

Secluded amid upstate New York’s Adirondack Mountains lies this subterranean emblem of a nation on the brink of nuclear war. And it's for sale.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

Crumbling remnants of what was once a booming town full of silver.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

Diego Rivera's massive tiled fountain and failed infrastructure project.

One of the smallest towns in the United States.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

Site of the 1889 murder-suicide of crown prince Rudolf and his lover Mary Vetsera.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

The twists and turns of this serpentine maze are over 170 years old.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

An elaborate, hidden model train in the Needham Town Forest.