Places Melanicholia Wants to Go

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.

Dedicated to the history of the health sciences.

Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

A lovers' beach, tucked below the surface of the island, provides a safe haven for romance.

This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.

This tree was grafted from the actual tree that led Isaac Newton to ponder the theory of gravity.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

The tiny airport in remote Newfoundland that inspired a hit musical is also a modernist architectural gem.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

If all members were present at the table, a sixth of the world's wealth would be under the same roof.

The remnants of the fortress that saved Georgia from the Spanish still stand guard on their swampy island.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.