Places LyraBlack Wants to Go

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

A hobby born from insomnia has turned into a hangar full of objects that have been be-buttoned by the Button King.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.

19th century cemetery hidden in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

Where infamous mobster and leader of Murder Inc. Albert Anastasia made his home.

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.

The Vatican of the movie industry turned into an actual church.

Check your calendars; you might be attending a drive-in movie or sitting next to a fashion runway.