Places punk opossum Wants to Go

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground

A classic roadside attraction on Vermont's historic Route 5.

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.

This disastrous New Jersey safari park saw animal attacks, escapes, and disease before being abandoned.

A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

Disney World's very first waterpark is now an abandoned ruin being reclaimed by the swamp.

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

One of many gator theme parks, abandoned in the sugar fields of South Florida.

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

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

The loneliest island in New York.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

The decaying ruins of Wales' first asylum for the mentally ill.

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

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

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.