Places Emily Sue Wants to Go

A disquieting Aztec sculpture displays hundreds of stone skulls representing the victims of human sacrifice.

These unusual paintings give thanks to the saints and deities who granted people favors and miracles.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

The ruins of the first Spanish settlement in Puerto Rico.

An impressive if morbid collection of mummified remains from different eras of the region's history.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

When life gave this firefighter a forest fire, he made a rough-hewn sculpture park using a chainsaw.

A hidey-hole sandwiched between cellphone, DVD, and jewelry stores features Tibetan delights.

A little-known ruin with a convoluted history and a fascinating latrine drainage system.

The last occupied troglodyte dwellings in England weren't abandoned until the 1960s.

The curious and tiny collection contains some very odd objects.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

This collection of over 50 classic pinball machines awaits visitors to downtown Roanoke.

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

Developers built a Walmart around one family's plot and constructed a mausoleum in the parking lot.

While most of the games in this arcade take quarters, that would have been a small fortune when they were made.

Restaurant in Northern Wisconsin comes with a unique feature: a grassy roof covered in living goats.

Town full of spiritualists, some of whom are mediums, is still in full swing after 130 years.

Hidden away in the city of Madison, Wisconsin is a nearly forgotten home that Frank Lloyd Wright built for a childhood friend.

It was once the base for a series of domestic terror attacks.

An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

More than 5,000 contemporary and "historic" mustards from around the world.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

A deteriorating 1990s Girl Scout camp in a beautiful lush park on Lake Ontario.