Places lefant14 Wants to Go

For over 80 years, Mayan ruins stood proudly in a most unlikely location.

A living antique aviation museum in the historic town of Red Hook, New York.

An old railroad grade built for the construction of Hoover Dam is now a recreational trail featuring several tunnels and sweeping views of Lake Mead.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

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

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

This Rhode Island mansion was a stand-in for the exteriors of Collinwood in the original "Dark Shadows" series.

A single light illuminates one man's overshadowed contributions to street lamp history.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.

The house and graveyard used in the Stephen King spine-chiller.

A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.

A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.

All that remains of the Whittall mansion are the ruins of the formal garden and its pergola, dedicated to the late Matthew J. Whittall by his widow.

Hidden behind a Target are pillows of cooled lava that formed at the bottom of a deep lake in the Mesozoic Era.

The gravestone of an eccentric Connecticut doctor features dinosaur tracks and a pair of fossil tree casts.

An overgrown and abandoned tuberculosis ward resides in the midst of a quaint modern neighborhood.

Now home to hardy plants, these sand and gravel dunes once held back a massive prehistoric lake.

From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.

A defunct all-girls college which may be the resting place of H.P. Lovecraft's real-life Necronomicon.

This historic cemetery is filled with markers that look more like candy than was likely intended.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

A comic book store got the road by its shop officially renamed after Superman's girlfriend.

The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.