Places Emily Sue Wants to Go

Now a city park, this site started as a stage stop, then was a working ranch, and finally became a dude ranch that specialized in letting wannabe divorcees establish Nevada residency.

Abandoned businesses, homes, and rusted cars are all that remains of this stopover town.

The remote graves mark the mysterious deaths of four 19th century explorers.

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

The largest geyser field in the southern hemisphere is a spectacular sight.

One of the largest ancient geoglyphs in the world is a tall desert god used for predicting the weather.

For centuries, this gold mine was the powerhouse behind the Tokugawa Shogunate.

This quaint archive of the silent era preserves and pays homage to a seminal moment in film history.

A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.

A succession of eerily contemplative iron figures lead from a Scottish museum to the sea.

This allegedly haunted 16th-century tower house-turned-museum exhibits thousands of spectacular objects.

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.

This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.

This hill nestled in the Scottish lowlands was a ritual site for over 4,000 years.

Large-scale contemporary artworks tower over fields and lurk in forests around a Jacobean manor house.

This miniature village stays behind in the Breuer Building, even as the museums around it come and go.

Generations have refused to move this doll from its dusty resting place to preserve a castle from a watery fate.

A memorial to a larger-than-life legend, inside a county that also holds Bunyan's death certificate.

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

This preserved wilderness hides the remains of a colonial grain mill used to feed George Washington's troops.

An exhibition space dedicated to American outsider art created between the 18th and 21st centuries.

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

The Vatican of the movie industry turned into an actual church.