Places luketheauthor Wants to Go

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.

Local legend has it that an old, decaying staircase outside this cemetery is haunted by dozens of ghosts.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

"The House That Love Built" is shying away from "The House That Ghosts Love."

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

This long, dark tunnel is open to hikers, but those without lights are known to get confused even on the straight path.

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

Its 27 graveyards represent the many nationalities and ethnic groups that voyaged to this wilderness in the late 19th century.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

Some call this eerie forest of crooked trees the "Bermuda Triangle of Romania."

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

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

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.