Places RavenNyx Wants to Go

Superfans of The Shawshank Redemption can take a driving tour of most of the films real locations.

Mausoleums, astronomy, and animatronic dinosaurs at this memorial to an assassinated American president.

Ghost stories surrounded this “castle,” the only structure from a huge mansion that was never built.

This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.

The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.

Marvel at this turn-of-the-century masterpiece that has been turned into a rather stately supermarket.

Abandoned since the 1950s, the streetcar lane beneath the heavily trafficked bridge lays empty and unused.

This Czar-funded, onion-domed, lavishly muraled Orthodox Church played a starring role in "The Deer Hunter."

A collection of witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.