Places Melanicholia Wants to Go

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

An 18th-century viewpoint across the surrounding highlands.

This mountain is one of the largest in Scotland but is better known for its hollow insides.

This eclectic sanctuary is a hodgepodge of various architectural styles, all crammed into one building.

Overlooking a Scottish loch, this beautifully crumbling castle once inspired a poem by William Wordsworth.

Nestled amid the peaks and lochs of the Scottish Highlands, this inn and pub has played host to outlaws and ghosts.

This ethereal, rainforest-like gorge is home to waterfalls, quaint bridges, and fairy folk.

This abandoned Victorian-style house was built in 1884.

The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.

The largest cemetery for enslaved people in Loudoun County was almost lost to history, if not for the research of a minister.

A stack of stones steeped in Irish folklore, much like the hero they're connected to, hide in plain sight.

The solitary grave of a schooner captain killed by lightning while serving biscuits.

A spectacular but little-known slot canyon in extreme northern Nevada, with sheer walls nearly 500 feet high and a perennial stream.

Many generations of travelers have passed through the steep, smooth walls of this canyon.

At the base of Steens Mountain resides an otherworldly desert.

Mine your own precious stones.

A space-age 1950s pavilion on a secluded path is full of Toronto history surprises.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

No one’s quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

The set location for a 1987 cult classic draws international film buffs to the middle of the Mojave Desert.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

In one of the hottest parts of the Mojave Desert, shallow bedrock forces the typically dry Mojave River to the surface in this canyon, providing a vital oasis for humans and wildlife.