Places jakechouston Wants to Go

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

This stunning Connecticut mansion is actually just a one-room-deep hoax.

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

Abandoned village in Sicily built during the agricultural reforms of Mussolini.

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

Abandoned Nazi train station turned underground astroparticle laboratory.

The once abandoned ruins of a Victorian beachside amusement park are now back in working order.

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

This abandoned radar station from the Cold War era now only broadcasts a seriously ominous air of isolation.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

Plagued by riots, celebrity injuries and a tragic death, this amusement park has been demolished.

Abandoned soda factory on a Cambodian roadside in a state of beautiful decay.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.

A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

This hospital once pioneered the use of electroencephalograms, but fell into maltreatment, abuse, and eventual abandonment.

Villas that once served as playgrounds for the rich now fall away in decay.

A millionaire's abandoned swimming pool from the gilded age of one of America's most distinguished families.