Places KellyandPeanut Wants to Go

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

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

The graffitied ruins stand hidden within the Pennsylvania woods.

This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

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

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.