Places jennybento Wants to Go

The world's oldest operating jazz club has been in operation since May 1934.

One lonely, modern pyramid has gone from corporate think tank to deserted boondoggle.

An ornate Detroit church, left empty and ravaged by time.

The remains of a religious colony, its amusement park, zoo, and baseball empire.

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.

A historic cemetery filled with quirky faux wood art and unique tombstones.

Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.

Easter in Westminster may be the only time and place to behold Edgar Allen Poe made entirely of Marshmallow Peeps.

Two dozen pinball games hidden away inside a most unlikely location.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

Expertly restored pinball machines as far as the eye can see.

Explore the dark underground corridors of this graffiti-covered former military fortification.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

A Christian-themed amusement park and complex rocked by scandals.

The language and heritage of a nearly forgotten culture can still be explored in this Southern enclave.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.