Places Hheeaatthh Wants to Go

A star fort along the C&O Canal in western Maryland that protected America in three wars.

Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

A historic coal mine that doubles as a museum and tourist attraction.

A cult archaeology conspiracy theory claims these West Virginia petroglyphs were written by Irish monks in Ogham.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Site of an escape, ten murders, and some scalpings.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

Marigolds, rosemary, Madonna lilies, and the Virgin’s Bower decorate this Massachusetts sacred garden.

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

The oldest platform carousel built in the United States continues to delight children in Martha’s Vineyard.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

A memorial sculpture to heath hens stands on the spot where the last heath hen, Booming Ben, was last seen.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.

The scarce remains of a sunken ship peek out from the sand on East Beach.

Tucked away inside a historic Savannah hotel is a hundred-year history presented in ladies' lids.

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.

This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."