Places Nojestes Wants to Go

Superfans of The Shawshank Redemption can take a driving tour of most of the films real locations.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

Delicate Wurlitzers, creepy clowns, and The Noid all share space in this insane explosion of kitsch history.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.

Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

This abandoned cemetery has a dark past of bodies buried over bodies.

Rabbit Hash is a heaping slice of Americana from another era, with a very peculiar origin behind its unusual name.

A museum that houses the world's largest collection of ventriloquism dummies.

A ship that lived many lives under many names is now known merely as the "Ghost Ship."

You were once able to challenge a chicken to tic-tac-toe at this park, which is now converted into the Aikman Wildlife Adventure.

More than 8,000 drinking jugs say “Cheers!” to a guy named Toby.

One of the last functioning antique elevators in Chicago.

Moving, mind-blowing metal sculpture work of an outsider artist.

A theater sits abandoned on Roosevelt Road, once majestic in splendor, now majestic in decay.

Even with only two residents and one building, this tiny Illinois town is famous for its burgers.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.