Places matttjenkin Wants to Go

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.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

The entrance to this sinisterly named tunnel hides behind a Tim Hortons.

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.