Places Melanicholia Wants to Go

Several times a year, during low tide, two pairs of historic train tracks are revealed on this New Jersey beach.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

This Great Depression-era creation was once known as the strangest house in the world.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

Rising out of a clearing in New Jersey's Pine Barrens is an Aztec-inspired monument to the "Lindbergh of Mexico."

The first partially complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered here, forever changing the world's view of the ruling reptiles.

The final resting place of one of the United States's greatest poets.

One of New Jersey's oldest surviving buildings still bears the mark of our former British overlords.

The way these carnivorous dinosaurs are posed is an homage to a classic work of paleoart.

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

The final resting place of many of New Jersey's most famous residents, including U.S. history's most in-vogue antagonist, Aaron Burr.

These magnificent city walls rise from the barren sun-baked Spanish plains like something straight out of a fairytale.

The world's only complete colossal squid specimen is on display at the Te Papa Museum.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

This peaceful oasis appears dreamy, but it's also the site of a nightmarish legend.

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

A gargantuan crystal kingdom.

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.

The neighborhood of Eagle Rock is named after a gigantic boulder with a shadowy surprise.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

Skulls and skeletons are omnipresent in this church dedicated to souls trapped in purgatory.

An abandoned quarry hides an open-air gallery of huge sculptures, some made from the rubble of 9/11.