Places Mira Wants to Go

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

The world's largest rotating world.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

These rows of World War II-era bunkers were the scene of some of the infamous Mothman sightings.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world’s most famous paranormal investigators. Museum is temporarily closed with plans to re-open.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

The world’s largest underwater sculpture is found just off the coast of Nassau.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

A delightfully quirky blend of oddities spread throughout an old 1920s bank.

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.

A stunning garden filled with fantastical environmental folk art and sculptures.

What happened to the three lighthouse keepers who vanished from this place remains a mystery over a century later.

This towering totem holds the title for the tallest in the world but only according to some.