Places freebrrd Wants to Go

A quirky little oasis in the California desert where rescue animals abound.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

Behind the Cowboy Hall of Fame is a burial ground for good horses and a famed rodeo bull.

Local lore claims this park is named after a young woman who jumped off a cliff.

This ominously named New Jersey street seems to be attracting over-the-top legends of its own making.

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.

This unique crypt designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his longtime friend was not completed in either man's lifetime.

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

This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions, just west of Orlando.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

An otherworldly musical haven in The Big Easy.

The first space rock known to have struck a human.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

The ruins of a creative scholar's fantastical unfinished sanctuary act as his massive gravestone.

Wading through a small lagoon reveals a secret, wild stretch of pristine beach.

An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.

The futuristic test model of an iconoclastic visionary who wanted to redesign the world.

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.

Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.