Places Rebecca Ro Wants to Go

This enchanting mountain plateau celebrates spooky local folklore.

Instead of faces, these sculptures have barcodes—statements on societal dehumanization.

The exterior of this home was used for the hit television show, The Brady Bunch.

A perilous medieval road leading right into the sea.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

The forgotten remnants of a land-to-sea cable car that was once unique in the world.

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

This former luxury resort in Kaua'i is now an abandoned relic.

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

A forgotten Cold War relic hidden in the outskirts of a Wisconsin city.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

A short hike into the mountainside forest reveals a decaying 1890s town.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

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

Tucked away on an empty wooded lot in suburban Oklahoma City lie the remnants of an abandoned circus camp.

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.