Places phildzielski Wants to Go

This Maryland farm is known for its amazing corn mazes and its 30-foot junkbots.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.

Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

Walk through the history of American pop culture.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

Once home to seven different roller coasters, Glen Echo has undergone many transformations since its founding in 1891.

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

Bizarre Cavern.

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

True to his word, George Swanson is buried in his white 1984 Corvette.

This 19th century machine put animals (including humans) in boxes to study how they metabolized calories.

The slate extracted from these Pennsylvania quarries was once hailed as the finest in the world.