Places hubris Wants to Go

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

Abandoned medieval hill town.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

This ancient ruined monastery has been destroyed by fire so many times that it seems like God hates it.

The ruins of a cotton mill that was burned in the Civil War are still hidden in a Georgia forest.

Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.

This notorious Canadian mental institution was home to some of the first LSD experiments and origin of the word "psychedelic."

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

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

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

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

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

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

This Queens hospital has stood abandoned for almost 20 years after its patients were secretly relocated in the dead of night.

A deteriorating 1990s Girl Scout camp in a beautiful lush park on Lake Ontario.

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.