Places immatthewpelton Wants to Go

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

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

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.