Places gdm584 Wants to Go

A soon-to-be-forgotten roadside spectacle loaded with local lore.

An Irish Memorial commemorating those who perished due to potato blight.

A hidden piece of Altoona's railroad history in a long-forgotten abandoned town.

The mortal remains of a Russian prince, priest and paranormal investigator who came to America in 1792.

The fastest transatlantic ocean liner sat abandoned in a Philadelphia shipyard for decades.

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.

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

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

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

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

A trompe-l'oeil statue honoring the first guide dog in North America.

Intricate storybook scenes are tucked inside these shadow boxes, which are tucked inside a library in the Pocono Mountains.

A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

One of the last-standing and most prominent structures from a long-lost colonial port community.

Thousands of Matchbox cars spanning generations call this New Jersey barn home.

A historic town sits upon the site of a long-lost 18th-century trading community.

A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.

A park in a small Pennsylvania town is home to an original sculpture by one of its native sons, legendary artist and activist Keith Haring.

Inside Crosswicks Creek Park resides an estate chronicling 200 years of history.

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.