Places Roysli Wants to Go

Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.

An approximately 500 million-year-old rock outcropping covered in fossilized bacteria.

This stone bridge is all that remains of a submerged New Jersey town.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

A historic grist mill and active sluice on the Black River.

This ominously named New Jersey street seems to be attracting over-the-top legends of its own making.

Local lore claims this park is named after a young woman who jumped off a cliff.

This scout retreat, still in use today, was the filming location for the original “Friday the 13th” film.

A candle shop hiding a haunted basement once used as a monkey research lab.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

An ideal wedding spot that is almost too ideal.

Eclectic architecture in the woods of New York.

Canada’s infamous maximum-security prison, now open for guided tours with former guards.

World's largest herd of white deer populate a former U.S. Army depot.

A mummy and sarcophagus are part of the many wonders in this library's collection.

A mysterious lake provides fresh water without any source, somehow restoring itself from atop its mountaintop perch.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

The quarry was abandoned over 100 years ago, after a massive ammunition explosion ended in tragedy.

Quite possibly the last cross all humans will ever see.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

A tunnel that brings more than a century of history to life from the deepest parts of the Niagara Gorge.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

This sprawling collection of saintly relics includes such fascinations as wood from the Cross of Jesus and threads from Mary's veil.