Places Joanna Wants to Go

Salt is slowly eating away this abandoned saltworks town in the desert.

A beloved carnival gets a modern makeover in Los Angeles.

A Cold War site complete with rusty structures, hiking trails, and beautiful views.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

This now-abandoned outcrop is an important Native American spiritual site, overtaken by European settlers and mining pollution.

An abandoned sawmill from more than 134 years ago stands testament to the ambition of one man.

Take a self-guided tour through one of Colorado's most elevated mining districts.

A memorial dedicated to the victims of the Columbine High School shootings.

In a small Japanese garden off a busy Denver street, a memorial to a brave, principled politician.

A small store filled with animal skulls and other curiosities.

The world's largest washing machine collection has more than 1,400 antique items in its exhibit.

A beautiful combination of living flora with preserved bones covers the shelves of this shop.

According to local legend, a tree grew from the stake that killed this alleged vampire. In reality, he probably died from influenza.

The final resting place of a 19th-century gold prospector and convicted cannibal.

At one time this small mining village was the highest town in America but now it sits abandoned while the mine churns on.

In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.

The oldest operating cemetery in Denver is the eternal home of some of the Centennial State's most famous residents.

A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.

The clock that sets them all.

The wreckage of a World War II bomber is hidden high in the Colorado wilderness.

A collection of over 15,000 zines works to preserve DIY publishing culture.

The haunted reputation of these abandoned Colorado train tunnels is probably not helped by the terrifying spiked fence.

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.