Places samanthahale Wants to Go

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

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

The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.

An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.

Enchanting gardens surround a derelict mansion, all hidden in plain sight behind a stone wall.

Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.

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

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

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

At a Bangkok bistro, one pot of beef stew has been cooking non-stop for more than 45 years.

Featuring a meatless buffet fit for kings, this family-owned Zurich eatery is considered the oldest vegetarian restaurant in the West.

A mass grave for victims of an airline disaster that led to much-needed safety improvements for commercial flights.

In the late 1990s, a mechanic and fan bought this iconic sportscar back from the dead.

Every Sunday, this Thai temple in Berkeley serves a backyard brunch.

This labyrinthine resting place of Black American leaders has been reclaimed by nature.

The world's only pure blue lizard lives exclusively on this secluded tropical island.

In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.

A memorial to a goat culled during a foot and mouth disease outbreak guards a series of fantastical caves.

This tiny 19th-century tunnel was built so a man could move his cows from one field to another.

The location of Puerto Rico's first water bottling plant, thanks to a collaboration between Mother Nature and technology.

The most southern point you can drive to in the Western Hemisphere.

A cheese discovery made by shepherds became the pride of a region.