Places JoannaT Wants to Go

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

The crumbling remains of a 19th century fortess.

This abandoned Civil War fortress is slowly being swallowed by the waters of Lake Borgne.

Once defending the city of New Orleans from invasion by sea, this fort faces an uncertain future.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

The former Naval shipyard is open for exploring - mostly.

Abandoned 19th century homes once occupied by naval officers, soon to be demolished.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Become a prohibition rebel.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

Ghosts of France's colonial past.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.

Origin of the blue-skinned Fugates of eastern Kentucky.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

The loneliest island in New York.

An underwater city for the dead.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.