Places lianahaley1 Wants to Go

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

A floating museum that was sunk by a flood and left to rot in the tides.

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

One of few surviving standpipe water towers in the U.S.

What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.

An abandoned factory along the Mississippi coated by a giant mural.

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.

The red brick house where the father of rock 'n' roll wrote some of his classic hits.

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.

Erosion and time have created a naturally-formed water park.

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

Inside this casino, visitors are treated to slot machines and a rare German Christmas pyramid.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

This museum houses artifacts from American adventurers and filmmakers Martin and Osa Johnson.

This 41,000-acre wetland complex is the largest marsh in the interior of the United States.

The 55-pound trichobezoar was removed from the stomach of a cow.

A tiny racehorse graveyard in the middle of a quiet Kansas City suburb.

This Wild West attraction is probably more fiction than history, but that doesn't mean it's not awesome.

This Italianate Villa-style castle is pretty to look at, just keep off the private property.

This simple home was the beginning of a long journey for the iconic Western film star.

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

Bronze statue marks the spinach capital of the world.