Places Joanna Wants to Go

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

A small medical museum with a recreated doctor's office.

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

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A free library to stumble across, one of many placed worldwide if you know where to look.

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

A stellar example of Art & Crafts architecture, and a movie set to boot.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

Remains of a Greek freighter trapped off of Rocky Point in 1961.

Made famous by cable TV, this oddball collection of antiques and collectibles is a cut above the rest.

This 'Murder House' grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.

One of the best collections of antique printing machinery in the world.

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.