Places greasekitten Wants to Go

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

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

This "zoo" is a cross between a junkyard and a sculpture garden, featuring animals you won't see anywhere else.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

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

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

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

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

The magic's in the hole!

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.