Places Lisa Hellen X Wants to Go

The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.

This disastrous New Jersey safari park saw animal attacks, escapes, and disease before being abandoned.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

This huge work of functional public art replaced a landfill in New Jersey's Meadowlands.

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

This modern monument to pagan belief looks like it was transported straight from ancient times.

The ruins of an abandoned crematorium haunt an eerie deserted German cemetery.

This East German military command bunker was ready for World War III.

Made from trees and then abandoned, this fence is still growing along a path in Germany.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.