Places Jess the Mess Wants to Go

The remains of a deserted 1800s farming community can be found in Little River State Park.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

A key producer of charcoal iron in the early 1800s, the structure still stands today.

Tucked away on an empty wooded lot in suburban Oklahoma City lie the remnants of an abandoned circus camp.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

Come for the boats, stay to explore the intriguing assortment of art.

This now-deactivated naval base defended the Florida coast for centuries.

World's largest collection of Coke-related items not held by the Coca-Cola company.

Rabbit Hash is a heaping slice of Americana from another era, with a very peculiar origin behind its unusual name.

The only building in Louisville (hopefully) that contains two ancient holy skeletons.

This railroad overpass is said to be home to a murderous goat-man whose very legend has led to very real deaths.

A ship that lived many lives under many names is now known merely as the "Ghost Ship."

Anna Anderson spent most of her life claiming to be the lost Romanov child Anastasia.

An ever-growing collection of rare and strange objects owned by local Arkansas illusionist Maxwell Blade.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

A museum celebrating rare American motorcycles where everything runs—and none of it quietly.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."