Places ieanferdinand Wants to Go

An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.

This hidden stone has absorbed decades of human anxiety.

A beautifully detailed Victorian house designed to be easy to flee, built by a man haunted by fire.

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.

This haunting tombstone comes complete with a heartbreaking story of love and loss.

Secret gardens just a few miles from downtown Atlanta.

A colorful square marks the heart of the city's LGBTQ community.

The remains of one of America's first radiation testing grounds still rest ominously in a Georgia forest.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

The largest cemetery in the American Southeast is a hidden gem near the heart of Atlanta.

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

This mysterious cross appeared on a farmer's lawn in 1972 and has been attracting pilgrims ever since.

A beloved street vendor is memorialized outside a German train station.

Seventeen members of the local royal family are interred in this Baroque church in northern Germany.