Places Emily Sue Wants to Go

This arts and culture cultural center explores the diverse cultural heritage of the American West.

This graveyard is the eternal home of many brave pioneers who settled the Great Northwest.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.

Local history museum with mammoth bones and an old myth about local giants

A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

This ominous Albanian fortress houses tanks and downed planes as a reminder of their victories over Western imperialism.

This sacred, circular cave is lined with pools so clear and still that it's hard to tell where the water begins.

A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.

The oldest continual pilgrimage site in Britain was supposedly created by a gruesome beheading.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

Western Europe's only representation of a Roman goddess still in its original location sits in an unassuming park.

A medieval bridge stretches over a sulfur-rich river that leads to year-round natural hot springs.

The ghost town where the villagers refuse to leave.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.