Places hopemch Wants to Go

This shop also boasts some sweet memorabilia from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."

One of the best places in Florida to spot rare, carnivorous pitcher plants.

One of the largest Native American shell middens stands 30 feet tall.

Believed to be haunted, this old cemetery is beautifully adorned with Spanish moss hanging from the trees.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

An abandoned 146-acre summer resort slowly being reclaimed by nature.

Inside a state forest, the forgotten remains of a Cold War defensive installation.

An overgrown and abandoned tuberculosis ward resides in the midst of a quaint modern neighborhood.

One of America's oldest private membership libraries was long one of New Haven's best kept secrets.

The remnants of a 19th-century ironmaking complex hidden in the woods of Connecticut.

This historic railway museum may have lost its passengers but not its love for trains.

This massive home was constructed by one of the greatest conservationists in Colorado history.

In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.

In a dry, neglected cemetery lies the unassuming grave of a soldier vilified in life but celebrated in death.

This now-abandoned outcrop is an important Native American spiritual site, overtaken by European settlers and mining pollution.

Hidden high on a remote mountain peak is a humbling and mysterious Vietnam War memorial.

While comics are the main attraction at this megastore, the second floor plays host to an exhibit fit for a museum.

A roadside attraction filled with an astounding array of gloriously wacky vehicles.

An antique narrow gauge railway line still running through the Colorado and New Mexico mountains.

Unlike most arches, this geological oddity formed in a volcanic dike.

An eclectic collection of artifacts from the Wild West is preserved in a remote fictional pioneer town.

This Chinese-style quartz sundial was saved in its final hour.

Air Force Academy Chapel made of 100 identical tetrahedrons works to inspire those of all religions.

The oldest operating cemetery in Denver is the eternal home of some of the Centennial State's most famous residents.