Places Joanna Wants to Go

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

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

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

Where scientists keep miles of very valuable ice from Antarctica and Greenland from melting.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

One of the greatest heroes of the Titanic tragedy came from humble beginnings to this beautiful home.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

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

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

The remnants of a failed socialist commune can still be found just off a California highway.

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

This historic abandoned train station looks like a stop for ghost trains.

This abandoned mining village was predicted to resist decay longer than any other modern human settlement.