Places joshpears Wants to Go

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.

This abandoned open-pit copper mine features stunning turquoise mineral pools and excellent rock-hunting opportunities.

An abandoned 1920s-era stretch of cabins now overshadowed by the 66 Motel.

Thousands of glyphs created by an unknown culture decorate the rock formations of this canyon.

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

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

Vulture Mine was Arizona’s most productive gold mine, and instrumental to the development of Phoenix.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

This forgotten building was one of the few Philadelphia-area breweries to survive Prohibition.

This little-known Revolutionary War fort is supposedly haunted by the ghosts of its past.

America's first serial killer rests in anonymity.

Century-old shop, specializing in Occult products.

The last of Philadelphia's wood-paved streets is now a landmark of terrible engineering.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

One of Philadelphia's largest murals resides hidden under this bridge.

The abandoned coal loading dock is a canvas for unsanctioned art.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Old neon signs from the City of Brotherly Love provide a snapshot of the city’s evolution.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

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