Places shadowsandrust Wants to Go

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

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

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

Two gems of Beaux Arts architecture that have been sitting vacant for years.

World War II-era bunkers are hidden under the beaches of this picturesque park, which is still scattered with wartime watchtowers.

A desiccated merman and a walrus penis bone are among the oddities in this eclectic collection of shipwreck treasures.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.

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

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.