Places GFire Wants to Go

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.

The lynching and burial site of America's first train robbers.

The Midwestern United States' tribute to Michelangelo is a foam statue sprayed with gaudy gold paint.

Locals place their offerings on this nightmarish gnarled tree so the witches won't summon another storm.

Ruined pieces of stone and a swimming pool are all that remain of an amusement park swept away by a flood.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie 'The Fugitive' can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

This defunct, fortress-like prison has been the setting for several movies.

One man has spent decades faithfully constructing this unique brick and cinderblock castle.

Visit the art studio of an early 20th-century painter, hidden amid the Great Smoky Mountains.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

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

This collection of Japanese luck idols beckons visitors with over 2,000 waving paws.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

A memorial for an outsider theorist who believed that the planet is actually hollow.

Inside, ancient treasures. Outside, modern contradictions.

The only building in Louisville (hopefully) that contains two ancient holy skeletons.

This 19th century mansion façade adorned with immigrant patriotism is a symbol of Louisville’s history.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.