Places emiliejayne Wants to Go

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

An unoccupied lighthouse encased in layers of ice from the waters of Lake Erie.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.