Places sarakreep Wants to Go

The oldest county library in the United States.

Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.

The permanent home of Elektro, the celebrity automaton of the 1939 World's Fair.

In the Mound Hill Cemetery resides the final resting place of the world's tallest couple.

A grandiose title could not save this mercantile community from obscurity.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest—and favorite—architectural masterpieces was almost lost.

The site of William McKinley's tragic assassination is only marked by an underwhelming boulder.

A Byzantine-style concrete artwork pays tribute to a 17th-century saint.

Created by four famous men, the beautifully designed Buffalo State Asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center, but still boasts a ghost story or two.

This unique crypt designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his longtime friend was not completed in either man's lifetime.

Ruins of a once-prized railroad station in New York.

More than 350 million years ago, western New York was covered in a vast sea. Today, you can dig up the remains of the plants and animals that lived there.

This Frank Lloyd Wright summer house was designed along Lake Erie as a retreat for a client's wife.

Where one of the worst train disasters in the country took place, leading to upgrades in rail safety.

The site of a 19th century "dream city" that almost rivaled Chicago before being swallowed by the Indiana sand dunes.

A monument to the “unrecognized dead” of the tragic 1876 train crash.

Hidden on a cattle ranch in Arizona, this bookstore has been celebrating Southwest literature for more than 40 years.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world’s most famous paranormal investigators. Museum is temporarily closed with plans to re-open.

Visit the grave of America's most prominent paranormal investigators and self-proclaimed demonologists.

This factory made "health corsets" that were a step towards liberating women's bodies.

This enormous abandoned factory is now a makeshift graffiti gallery.

The oldest living cultivated fruit tree in North America.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.