Places madisonhuy Wants to Go

At this 1940s-era neighborhood favorite, you can still drink a cherry phosphate.

The only standing town in the United States that early Chinese Americans built for themselves.

This hidden amusement park is a magical escape for kids and kids-at-heart.

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

Downieville's largest Gold Rush structure still standing has one of the longest bars in California.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

This Southern Californian Conservation Center is home to singing and howling apes.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

This dark, quiet forest on the outskirts of San Diego is dense with rumor and lore.

The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.

A formerly abandoned mental institute, now back in business.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.

A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.

Ruins of a historic medical facility sits eerily by the water.

The once-abandoned 140-year-old hotel used in the movie "In Dreams."

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.