Places Edited by Rachel James

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

This whimsical winery by Antoni Gaudí looks ripped from the pages of a fairytale.

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

Visitors come from all over to bring gifts and tokens to the grave of Alice, who is thought to have died of a broken heart.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

The tragic reality of a village riddled with rumors of haunts, chemical spills, and serial killers.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world’s most famous paranormal investigators. Museum is temporarily closed with plans to re-open.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

A UFO-shaped event building originally intended to be a science museum showcasing the future.

A thriving artist's wonderland located just 6 kilometers from Korea's DMZ.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

This experimental utopian "city of the future" in rural India may hold a dark secret.

Petrified footprints of one of the very first vertebrates to walk on land.