Places Ryshili Wants to Go

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

Outsider Art Community.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

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