Places Runic Wants to Go

A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

It seems that the residents of of this megalopolis suddenly vanished, but they were never actually there.

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

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

Population: 1.

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.

An entire town preserved as a historic landmark.

No Gordon Lightfoot song, only a barebones monument to greed.

An abandoned meat mecca now serves as an excellent locale for urban exploration.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

An abandoned bait shop with a front lot filled with storage boxes.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.

These rows of World War II-era bunkers were the scene of some of the infamous Mothman sightings.

A take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

One man's real life disfigurement inspired a lasting local legend surrounding an eerie tunnel.

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

Urban explorers embraced America's now demolished first suburban mall, south of Chicago.

Abandoned former poorhouse, bible college, and haunted house in an Ohio hamlet.