Places Phantasmagoria Wants to Go

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

This natural rock "church" might not be a proper chapel but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

This fancifully decorated Victorian home in New York’s Hudson Valley is the only known fully domed octagonal residence in the United States.

This abandoned cemetery is crumbling into ruin, exposing the artifacts and bodies buried there.

The Brigadier General was so afraid of being buried alive that he had a buzzer installed in his mausoleum, just in case he woke up.

Edison's cast-in-place concrete houses were a failure, but way ahead of their time.

In the power of this waterfall, Alexander Hamilton saw the potential for industry.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

This derelict building used to house infirm Freemasons, their widows, and orphans.

A historic Black graveyard hidden in the parking lot of one of America's largest malls.

This house was the subject of an Edward Hopper painting, which in turn helped inspire the design of the Bates house in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho.'

Hundreds of numbered stakes hidden in the woods mark the graves of the lost souls of a nearby asylum.

Known as the "Grand Lady of Jersey City,” the city's first racially-integrated hotel was owned by a preacher who was, depending on who you ask, a cult leader, civil rights pioneer, or the manifestation of God.

This is the location of the U.S. Radium Corporation where the “Radium Girls” worked, became sickened by radiation poisoning, with many dying horrible deaths.

A giant light 13 feet high shines near Thomas Edison's old Menlo Park lab.

The final resting place of one of the United States's greatest poets.

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.

Century-old shop, specializing in Occult products.

This historic estate was home to a girls’ seminary before housing Meadville’s first mayor.