Places jakechouston Wants to Go

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

This WWII-era military installation once held an entire city within its walls - now, its walls are falling down.

Crash site of a US National Guard C-47B plane that attempted to land at Gustavus airport in 1957 in bad weather.

A hulking remnant of Alaska's industrial gold mining boom in the 1920s.

In the middle of the Alaskan wilderness, lies a train trestle to nowhere.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.

The ruins of this Alaska gold mine form a gorgeous ghost town.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

America's smallest "national forest" has only 33 trees.

An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.

Known as one of the most climbed mountains in the world, this barren peak is permanently bald thanks to an anti-wolf fire.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

Once the largest attraction in Rhode Island, this former amusement park is now a gorgeous coastal state park.

A virtually untouched "home on the hill" for the flora and fauna of Rhode Island.