Places e Wants to Go

An abused and forgotten metropolis, abandoned for centuries.

4,000 monkeys used for medical testing on an island off of South Carolina.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

A lovers' beach, tucked below the surface of the island, provides a safe haven for romance.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

In paradise, feral pigs have claimed an island all to themselves.

This neon blue river gets its color from a unique mix of bacteria and volcano minerals.

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

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.