Places Ember Penumbra Wants to Go

The remains of a Canadian train crash are now mouldering beneath layers of rust and graffiti.

Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.

Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

A Seattle oddities shop brimming with Victorian-era gems and antique curio.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

Clusters of abandoned buildings hint at the facility's 144-year history with psychiatric health.

The ruins of a rehabilitation center for World War II vets can be found in the Westminster Ponds Conservation area.

A collection of human remains, animal body parts, and other macabre curiosities all legally for sale.

The third version of this tall sailing ship sits, rusted and burnt, in Lake Ontario.

A neutrino detector built into the largest man-made underground cavity in the world.

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.

One of the best places to see wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

A curious blend of taxidermy, antique tools, creationism, and a purported antediluvian rock.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie 'The Fugitive' can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.