Places meredithp Wants to Go

Once home to seven different roller coasters, Glen Echo has undergone many transformations since its founding in 1891.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

The ruins of this long-abandoned unsuccessful gold mine can still be found.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

An all-female order shares an ancient culinary art with visitors at their mountaintop monastery.

A chilling monument to Korean patriots who resisted the Japanese occupation.

Tracking the 1,500-year history of Korea's star cabbage.

A bright and wacky exhibit answers every question you may have had about human excrement, flatulence, and more.

Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.

Beijing's version of Disneyland, completely abandoned, mostly destroyed.

Beijing's expansive subterranean hiding spot now crumbles away as a tourist destination.

Beijing's World Park offers the excitement of international sites without the travel.

This probably wasn't what Mao had in mind.

This Chinese museum proves that it's a watermelon world, we're all just living in it.

Why walk on this historical site when you can zoom down instead?

The world's longest outdoor escalator takes visitors to the top of China's largest dam and is also shaped like a dragon.

This synagogue is the only place of worship for New Delhi’s small Jewish community.

Nestled among the artifacts of the National Crafts Museum, this hidden gem offers hard-to-find regional foods from all over India.

Made by a man on a worldwide sanitation crusade.

An abandoned settlement originally established by British colonialists in the Andaman archipelago.

In Mumbai, a bright blue synagogue is the largest one for the Baghdadi Jewish community in Asia.