Places Gin Minsky Wants to Go

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

A Biblically-based Natural History Museum.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

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

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

Eclectic collection of dark and macabre antiques.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

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