Places miriamrigg Wants to Go

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

The abandoned ruins of America's first private zoo are open for exploration in the Catskills.

The untimely death of a dignitary's daughter led to this fort being abandoned before it was ever finished.

This historic textile city was abandoned after being ravaged by fire.

An abandoned horror film set sits eerily along a highway through Hollywood's "door to the desert."

This cemetery holds the remains of an accused witch and the man that ensured her freedom.

In the Mound Hill Cemetery resides the final resting place of the world's tallest couple.

This forgotten graveyard in rural New York State once served a pioneering hospital.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

The only U.S. Senator to die on the field of battle is buried in San Francisco but memorialized at Balls Bluff Regional Park.

In this cemetery stands the country's first public crematorium.

This sanitorium-turned-asylum-turned-prison is now abandoned and a hotspot for enjoyers of the paranormal.

The final resting place of two members of the infamous Doan gang, notorious outlaws and Revolutionary War Loyalists.

America's first serial killer rests in anonymity.

An unusual and eclectic collection of local historical memorabilia.

An abandoned incline railway site is now a green space with six acres of trails connecting hilltop neighborhoods.

It marks the spooky spot where the bodies of two young boys were found in the 19th century.

This vintage short line in Amish country runs passenger steam train excursions and still hauls freight.

A piece of crumbling highway infrastructure was repurposed as a high-tech facility for testing racecars.

Locals call this magical moss-covered walkway the "Emerald Path."

The forest has reclaimed nearly everything—streets included—from this failed Pennsylvania "City of Heaven" that was once deeded directly to God.

The mortal remains of a Russian prince, priest and paranormal investigator who came to America in 1792.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

The forest hides a cemetery where members of the British Legion rest in peace.