Places hlabo15 Wants to Go

This abandoned train tunnel has been the subject of countless ghost stories for years.

A monument marks the location of the first successful steamboat demonstration.

This tiny man looms large over downtown Charleston.

One of the few surviving examples of the first lock and dam system built on the Ohio River.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

This rural community has attracted both scientists and techno-refugees due to its federally-mandated lack of technology.

Berkeley Springs State Park boasts the nation's only monument commemorating presidential bathing.

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

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

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

With 3,000 bikes on display, the world's largest bicycle museum includes some famous rarities.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

Enchanting gardens surround a derelict mansion, all hidden in plain sight behind a stone wall.

This splendid Versailles-inspired mansion has the largest French-style formal gardens in North America.

A wrecked ship dating back to the American Revolution was only recently discovered off the Delaware coast.

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

A museum in the building where Nazi Germany signed its surrender tells the story of World War II from the Soviet perspective.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.