Places eapya Wants to Go

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

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

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

A historic cemetery with unique artwork, a Civil War fort, and also happens to be the site of the Battle of Bladensburg.

A small 19th-century graveyard tucked away in the middle of a suburban neighborhood.

A relic of FDR's brief foray into utopian urban planning.

The United States' oldest Episcopal church still in active use.

Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.

Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.

Dogs, cats, horses, monkeys, frogs, and fish are laid to rest at the second-oldest pet cemetery in the U.S.

Maryland's first (and last standing) toll house on America's first federal road established the state as the "Gateway to the West."

A mammoth pair of Civil War artillery guns abandoned out in the forest.

This abandoned Victorian-style house was built in 1884.

Electronic inventions that resulted in products and systems we use every day are on display in this labor-of-love museum.

The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

A star fort along the C&O Canal in western Maryland that protected America in three wars.