Places Emily Sue Wants to Go

This mid-19th-century dugout was once home to a Swedish family as they erected their homestead.

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.

This grand Georgian manor house was converted to serve as an isolation hospital before it was abandoned and destroyed.

A small abandoned and abused cemetery that has become a magnet for ghost hunters.

A sprawling outdoor museum filled with larger-than-life works of art.

This temple was constructed entirely by Roman soldiers.

This general store offers visitors a glimpse back into the 1930s.

Instead of faces, these sculptures have barcodes—statements on societal dehumanization.

A simple plaque remembers a California island massacre that claimed more than 100 lives.

Folk art crafted from discarded vegetable crates.

Experience the "opulence, grace, and grandeur of Eureka's most famous Victorian Inn."

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

Some of the best-preserved specimens of the monumental medieval tombstones found throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

A hobby born from insomnia has turned into a hangar full of objects that have been be-buttoned by the Button King.

First established in 1696, this settlement was abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

The uniquely-designed winter home and sculpture studio of Anna and Archer Huntington.

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

A 12,000-year-old bog boasting rare plants and fauna.

A New Hampshire grave with a grudge.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.