Places knwachter Wants to Go

Tales of ghosts, cryptids, and true crime rise from the murky waters of the largest freshwater wetland in Massachusetts.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

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

The woman whose immortal cell line continues to shape scientific research was buried near her birthplace in a grave that was left unmarked for nearly 60 years.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

A 19th-century cabin built into a hollowed-out Sequoia tree.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

This massive 286,200-tile mosaic was the largest mural of its kind in the United States and is an early example of computer-generated art.

Some believe this abandoned Brutalist masterpiece inspired George Lucas's Sandcrawler.

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

You won't find these curiously named passageways anywhere else in England.

Also known as "Hell Alley," this tiny street in Imola gained its name in a bloody episode in the 16th-century.

This secluded date farm can be reached only by following a bumpy, single-lane desert road.

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

A jungle cave in Peru of unknown depths, otherworldly sounds, and strange nocturnal birds that navigate by echolocation.

A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

It's said that at this location, a Scottish poet met the Queen of the Fairies.

A traveling Bronze Age sacrificial stone that was used to honor elves, fairies, and other woodland spirits.

A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.

Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.

A Saxony castle houses one of the largest and most outstanding mineral collections in the world.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.