Places hubris Wants to Go

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

Memorial dedicated to four citizens killed during a shooting spree prompted by a routine traffic stop.

This riverfront statue honors the inventor of the first video games ever sold.

A stretch of New Hampshire lake water is the only ice runway in the lower 48 states that is FAA-approved.

The dress young Pierce wore prior to his breeching ceremony in the early 1800s is now on display for all to see.

The massive Roman arch in New Hampshire that was meant to be a tomb.

A small obelisk marks the spot where Captain Sam Greele was killed by a falling tree.

Sites connected to a woman born on a ship and spared by a pirate.

A man killed in a hunting accident is eternally guarded by a granite hound tombstone.

The gravestones in this historic cemetery are carved with mysterious faces.

A 12,000-year-old bog boasting rare plants and fauna.

A gravestone marks where a man's lost limb was laid to rest.

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

An unrecognized nation-state created in the 1820s to avoid taxes.

This small-town library was the first in the world to be entirely supported by taxation.

The final resting place of the man who played the Invisible Man.

The strange, ritualistic-seeming 100+ year old basement of a New Hampshire undergrad society.

A recreated sign from the movie Jumanji has become a makeshift tribute to the film's late star.

Murder scene memorialized in perpetuity by grisly obelisk.

3,200-square-foot mural inside Dartmouth Library depicts the history of America with images of human sacrifice, ancient gods, and other unspeakable terrors.

The summer home and later final residence of acclaimed American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

Final resting places of a husband and wife who became famous for their claims of extraterrestrial abduction.

A New Hampshire grave with a grudge.