Places madeleinelogan Wants to Go

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

This abandoned Poconos resort is haunted by a history of kitschy romance and a violent fugitive.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

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

Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

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

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.