Places Emily Sue Wants to Go

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

What remains of the summer palace of King Kamehameha III.

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in North America is built of concrete designed to last 1,000 years.

The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.

An eccentric folk art landmark made out of discarded bottles by an inspired "grandma."

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

Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

This maze-like slot canyon is a unique gem within an already fascinating geological area.

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.