Places escapementality Wants to Go

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

The magic's in the hole!

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

An underwater city for the dead.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.