Places Sareese Wants to Go

Ghost stories surrounded this “castle,” the only structure from a huge mansion that was never built.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

This house was the subject of an Edward Hopper painting, which in turn helped inspire the design of the Bates house in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho.'

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

This striking arch, one of the first architectural elements constructed in Prospect Park, was recently restored to its original glory.

Recovered suit of a cannibalistic West African gang.

Finally, you don't have to be a pious Swedish seaman to relax like one.

Hundreds of numbered stakes hidden in the woods mark the graves of the lost souls of a nearby asylum.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

Brooklyn’s wildest restaurant is serving ice cream in snail shells and marrow bones.

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

Paisley's oldest open green space contains a rather ostentatious fountain at its center.

Not even a series of devastating fires could keep this odd castle in upstate New York from bouncing back.

The former home of a disgraced local priest now hosts a mysterious secret supper club.

Discovered by cows, these upstate New York show caves are presented with a healthy dose of psychedelic folk art.

The world's largest indoor go-kart racetrack is hiding in Connecticut.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

This Victorian home turned opera house may have a phantom of its own.

After retiring, Gary Pendergrass turned his yard into a wonderland of outsider art.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.

Iceland's only steampunk shop imagines a retro-futuristic world that never was.