Places Phantasmagoria Wants to Go

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

New York's oldest magic store.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

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

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Professional and amateur dioramas, taxidermy, and oddities all located in an attic above a gallery.

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.