Places Melanicholia Wants to Go

Fascination continues to surround one of history's most infamous shipwrecks.

British Empire's last territorial expansion, claimed by four countries.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.

The house and graveyard used in the Stephen King spine-chiller.

The second-oldest garden cemetery in the U.S. was also a college brainstorm spot of Stephen King.

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.

Abraham Lincoln's vice president took his last breath here on July 4, 1891.

At the very tippity-top of Europe is a cliff from which you can view the midnight sun.

The world's northernmost ice hotel.

The people murdered during a 17th-century Norwegian witch hunt have been honored with a pair of stark, modern installations.

This disused church, left to the elements of the Arctic Circle's forests is open for exploration.

Rent out a glass igloo to watch the Northern Lights like you live in the future.

A lumberjack in Finnish Lapland did not want to cut down his Arctic pines, so he offered them up to be adopted by nature-lovers.

It would take 35 firetrucks to fill this enormous glacial pothole.

This demolished goliath of American industry once loomed over the depressed town it once made thrive.

A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and converted into a cocktail bar. Now it’s home to the local visitor bureau.

The graffitied ruins stand hidden within the Pennsylvania woods.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

The famous bell was secreted away and hidden in a church in Allentown during the British occupation of Philadelphia.

An Olympic hero stripped of his medals is buried in a town he never visited, which took his name after his death.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.