Places shadowsandrust Wants to Go

An urban laboratory.

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

The remains of a religious colony, its amusement park, zoo, and baseball empire.

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.

A collection of witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.

Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.

An unassuming island in the middle of the Hudson that hosts campers, including Aleister Crowley.

A perfect replica of the beloved show's first set.

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.

There’s a secret bunker inside the Brooklyn Bridge, but the city won’t say where.

The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.

Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.

The final resting place of the Hollywood star who came to a tragic end.