Places pfreckna Wants to Go

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

After sitting abandoned for decades, this historic mine is now the only publicly accessible chalk room and pillar mine in North America.

Instead of becoming a power plant, this abandoned complex became a massive letdown.

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

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.

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

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

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

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

One of few vertical lava tubes in the world accessible by foot.

This Art Deco service station has been providing tune-ups and turning heads for close to a century.

This seemingly out-of-place gas station by the Watergate hotel was once described as the most expensive gas station in the world.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

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

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

A part of the world's largest marsh seems to be growing bright red Martian grass.

Pay homage to the quintessential P-town dive.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.