Places peglegasus Wants to Go

Established in 1925, Kiddie Park claims to be the oldest amusement park in the U.S. - a cozy little time warp nestled in a shady corner of the modern world.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

In the heart of Brigham Young's promised land sits a festering plot of industrial ruin that has been claimed by society's outcasts.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

An abandoned nightclub has become a vibrant work of art.

This forlorn park is the result of a failed investment turned tax dodge.

The gutted remains of this Estonian mansion are a monument to a tragic love.

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

This abandoned asylum in Wales might look haunted, but it's still beautiful.

Once the longest bridge in Ireland, this rusting span sits abandoned and overrun by nature.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

The ruins of a creative scholar's fantastical unfinished sanctuary act as his massive gravestone.

The most gigantic, swoony, intimidating trio of fingers in all of antiquity.

This crumbling little graveyard was saved from the undergrowth by concerned veterans.

This staircase full of Mayan hieroglyphics is perhaps the largest single text in the world.

After being destroyed by IRA sympathizers, the ruins of this stately Irish manor have sat vacant for decades.