Places keri125 Wants to Go

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

This 15-foot tall obelisk commemorating the Philadelphia-Baltimore railroad connection sat neglected for over a century.

This historic old movie house was the scene of one of the Blob's most iconic attacks.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

The loneliest island in New York.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

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

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

A former mining hospital is now a vibrant artistic hub.

This historic estate on the east shore of Lake Tahoe was home to an eccentric millionaire (and his pet elephant, Mingo).

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

Bringing back the art of handmade custom coffins.

This vintage animatronics show is the Vegas version of a walk through the woods.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

Thousands of artifacts relating to human sexuality, including the world's largest sex bike.