Places meltingknight Wants to Go

Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

World's oldest operating science fiction and fantasy club, once home to Ray Bradbury and L. Ron Hubbard.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

This "zoo" is a cross between a junkyard and a sculpture garden, featuring animals you won't see anywhere else.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.