Places rachelelizabethmaher Wants to Go

This historic California cemetery holds the bodies of veterans of both the Civil War and the Donner Party.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

Piled high inside this warehouse and coffee shop are salvaged goods that span every corner of the globe.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

Once named the “world’s oldest gas station” due to its unusual construction material.

According to local legend, a tree grew from the stake that killed this alleged vampire. In reality, he probably died from influenza.

Two creeks flow out of either end of this canyon in opposite directions.

In the middle of a suburban Denver neighborhood is a cave that once provided solace for a prominent Ute chief and his family.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Open-air cremations in Colorado's self-proclaimed spiritual mecca.

A recreation of an Old West apothecary full of curios.

A collection of fading fantasy tchotchkes lines this dirt road in the Colorado wilderness.

Silver in the hills led to the speedy creation of this boom town and a lack of it saw the town abandoned nearly as quickly.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

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

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

A strange aquarium with stuffed fish, and almost no water for them to swim in.