Places LeslieB Wants to Go

A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.

If astronomy had a ghost, it would look like this observatory.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

This former luxury resort in Kaua'i is now an abandoned relic.

The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.

Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

Amid the marketing blitz of modern Times Square is an elegant holdover from its showbiz glory days.

An enormous overgrown greenhouse teeming with graffiti and wildlife.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

Pennsylvanian mass grave and possibly mass murder.

Enchanting gardens surround a derelict mansion, all hidden in plain sight behind a stone wall.

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

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