Places Emily Kemp Wants to Go

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.

A mysterious light floating in the trees of Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

This gruesome biblical parade celebrates the one day a year that a bit of Jesus' blood turns to liquid.

The oldest cemetery in Belgium.

The spectacular and eerie moss-covered grave site of 19th-century Belgian merchant.

The bronzed skull of a beheaded traitor was affixed to the city gate in the 17th century.

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.

The arching stretch of London's longest street holds many reminders of the area's maritime past.

A medieval military street hidden beneath a charming French fishing village.

An English artist has turned an unassuming ex-council house into a time-lost house of mystery.

Centuries later, the victims of Great Britain's greatest hysteria are finally being remembered.

This historic franken-chapel is the oldest wooden church in the world, at least part of it.

A wonderfully eclectic Victorian aquarium lies in the basement of the Horniman Museum.

Tombstones and enigmatic inscriptions hide within a vault beneath a popular London arts venue.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.